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247 U.S. 347 · 1918

Citation profile

151
cited by 151 later decisions
21
cited 21 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
February 1958
most recently cited

62 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 151 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1958 · most notably New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering (1934), Eisner v. Macomber (1920)

62 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 state decisions

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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 Towne v. Eisner · Southern Pac Co v. Lowe · Lynch v. Hornby · Southern Pac. Co. v. Lowe

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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It hardly is necessary to say that this case is not ruled by our decision in Towne v. Eisner, since the dividend of Baltimore & Ohio shares was not a stock dividend but a distribution in specie of a portion of the assets of the Union Pacific, and is to be governed for all present purposes by the same rule applicable to the distribution of like value in money.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Eisner v. Macomber · Ziliox v. Commissioner
  2. “only upon the ground that it related to a stock dividend which in fact took nothing from the property of the corporation and added nothing to the interest of the shareholder, but merely changed the evidence which represented that interest;”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Eisner v. Macomber

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.