Bien v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1977
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Cohan v. Commissioner · Brown v. Helvering · Stern Bros. & Co. v. Commissioner · Hygienic Products Co. v. Commissioner · EHRET-DAY CO. 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jobs under that system [completed contract] must be closed out in the year in which substantially completed.”
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.