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Finlay v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

1929

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
April 1944
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Fouke v. Commissioner · Appeal of M. I. Stewart & Co. · Clark v. Commissioner · Young v. Commissioner · Hemenway 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We must scrutinize with particular care the conditions surrounding an alleged transfer or sale of property between those who bear a confidential relationship to each other, such as members of the same family or those closely associated in business.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “We have held repeatedly that a loss must be real and actual, and not merely a fiction, in order to entitle it to deductibility,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.