Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. v. Lederer’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.2d 320 · 1927
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Worthington v. Robbins · Magone v. Wiederer · Cadwalader v. Wanamaker · United States v. Massachusetts General Hospital · United States v. United States Exp. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tax laws, like all other laws, are made to be obeyed. They should therefore be intelligible to those who are expected to obey them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Aronson
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.