Plassey v. Kavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005
1 federal appellate ·
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 Cleveland v. Higgins · Van Dyke v. Kuhl · Bohnen v. Harrison · Commerce Co. v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 81.34(b) says that a ‘deduction for attorneys’ fees incurred in prosecuting a claim for refund should be claimed at the time such refund is prosecuted.’ As most commonly used in legal language the word ‘prosecute’ means ‘to seek to obtain, enforce, or the like, by legal process; as to prosecute a right or claim in a court of law.’ Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, 1953. We think the word ‘prosecute’ was used in Section 81.34 as defined above, and that the claim for a deduction for the fees here was timely since it was made in the plaintiffs’ complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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