Hover v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1973
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Minnesota · La Jolla Casa De Manana v. Riddell · Riddell v. La Jolla Casa De Manana · Duffin v. Duffin · Paxson v. Commissioner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that Congress envisioned an essential unity between the service of refreshment and the enjoyment of the entertainment. *• * *»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A tax equivalent to 20 per centum of all amounts paid for admission, refreshment, service, or merchandise, at any roof garden, cabaret, or other similar place furnishing a public performance for profit, by or for any patron or guest who is entitled to be present during any portion of such performance. The term ‘roof garden, cabaret, or other similar place’ shall include any room in any hotel, restaurant, hall, or other public place where music and dancing privileges or any other entertainment, except instrumental or mechanical music alone, are afforded the patrons in connection wtih the serving or selling of food, refreshment, or merchandise.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The only sensible and practical approach to the problem is to consider the wording of the statute in the light of each factual situation as it is presented keeping always in mind the objectives and purposes the statute sought to achieve. * * * ”.”
2 later decisions 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.