Cheney v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1236
Relies on Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co. v. City of Louisville · Stanley v. Gates · McCarroll, Commr. of Revs. v. Gregory-Robinson-Speas · Wiseman v. Interstate Public Service 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a super-corporation which owns or at least controls such a dominant interest in one or more corporations that it is enabled to dictate their policies through voting power; a corporation organized to hold the stock of other corporations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely acts of holding stocks in other corporations”
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.