Walker v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2016
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 Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · Bogardus v. Commissioner · Noel v. Parrott · Willkie v. Commissioner · Fisher v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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.
“Even though a payment for services was entirely voluntary, was in addition to the agreed salary, and was made without legal obligation, it is 'compensation' * * *.”
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.