Commissioner v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 256 · 1943
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Deputy v. du Pont · Burnet v. Logan · Stearns Co of Boston Mass v. United States · Southern Pac Co v. Lowe · Helvering v. Le Gierse
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * some part of the sums received by respondent was a return to him of his original investment. This characteristic distinguishes an annuity contract from an interest contract.” Also: “ * * * In the case of interest in its usual acceptation, there is always a principal which remains intact * *”
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.