Patten v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 1029 · 1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1001 · 26 U.S.C. § 1014 · 26 U.S.C. § 2040
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · New Jersey v. New York · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Lewyt Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n express repeal requires that Congress overtly state with specificity that the subsequent statute repeals a portion of the earlier statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'positive repugnancy' ” between them such that they”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“severance and re-creation of the joint interest). Finally, sec. 2040(e) provided that if a pre-1977 joint interest was actually severed and re-created by deed, it would nonetheless not be (continued...) -12- The final relevant amendment to section 2040 took place in 1981. Subsections (c), (d), and (e), which had been adopted in 1978, were repealed. Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA), sec. 403(c)(3), Pub. L. 97-34, 95 Stat. 172, 302. The definition of a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.