Eisner v. Macomber’s Empirical Analysis
252 U.S. 189 · 1920
Citation profile
1,035 federal appellate · 163 district · 238 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,579 later decisions (204 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1950)
1,035 federal appellate · 163 district · 238 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Towne v. Eisner
Cited together with Doyle v. Mitchell Bros. · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Glenshaw Glass Company · United States v. Phellis · Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad
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 2,579 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“something of exchangeable value ... derived from property.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
14 later decisions 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.