Walter F. O'Brien v. Russell C. Harrington, Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 17 · 1956
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2021
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. Hark · Mulligan v. Andrews · Weldon v. United States · St. Louis Amusement Co. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp. · Bowles v. Rice
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen [the clerk] fails accurately to note in the civil docket the substance of a judgment which he has before him, he is guilty of a clerical misprision.” Id. at 20 . Because judgment had never been entered on the claim for declaratory relief (due to the clerk’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“March 26, 1954. Order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant]Id. The D.C. Circuit held that the docket entry was not effective to enter judgment because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.