Mulligan v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1975
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bailey v. Richardson · Bailey v. Richardson · Carter v. Forrestal · Robinson v. United States · Deak v. Pace, Jr., Secretary of Army. Patton v. Pace, Jr., Secretary of Army
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * acceptance of fees or gifts for preparing the income tax returns over a period of years for taxpayers ‘Nick’ Robin, Isidore Robin, Peter and Catherine Stahl, Anthony and Magdalina Matje, and Leo C. Coleman. Amongst this group are several whose income is derived from illegal sources, which fact was known to you when you prepared their returns.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mulligan v. Andrews
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.