Akers v. Scofield’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 718 · 1948
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Rutkin v. United States (1952), McGee v. Commissioner (1973)
24 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Eisner v. Macomber · North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet · Stone v. White · Commissioner v. Wilcox · United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the acquisition of ⅜ * * money * * * by means of some false or deceitful pretense or device, or fraudulent representation, with intent to appropriate the same to the use of the party so acquiring * % *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The is often called an equitable action and is less restricted and fettered by technical rules and formalities than any other form of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Allen
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.