26 U.S.C. § 4231
Section 4231 · 4231 to 4234. Repealed. Pub. L. 8944, title III, 301, June 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 145]
Applied in 41 court decisions — leading case Nicholas v. United States (1966)
Most recently applied in Carpenteri-Waddington, Inc. v. Commissioner of Revenue Services (November 1994)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Section 4231, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 497; Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 1019, 1, 70 Stat. 1074; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–859, title I, § 131(a)(c), 72 Stat. 1286, 1287; Apr. 8, 1960, Pub. L. 86–422, § 1, 74 Stat. 41, imposed a tax on admissions, permanent use or lease of boxes or seats, sales outside of box office in excess of established price, sales by proprietors in excess of established price, and cabarets. Section 4232, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 498; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–859, title I, § 131(d), 72 Stat. 1287, defined admission, roof garden, cabaret, or other similar place, and performance for profit as used in section 4231. Section 4233, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 498; Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 792, 1, 69 Stat. 675; Apr. 16, 1958, Pub. L. 85–380, §§ 1–3, 72 Stat. 88; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–859, title I, § 131(e), (f), 72 Stat. 1287; June 25, 1959, Pub. L. 86–70, § 22(a), 73 Stat. 146; Sept. 21, 1959, Pub. L. 86–319, § 1, 73 Stat. 590; Sept. 21, 1959, Pub. L. 86–344, § 2(c), 73 Stat. 617; July 12, 1960, Pub. L. 86–624, § 18(d), 74 Stat. 416, granted certain exemptions to certain charitable, educational, or religious entertainments, agricultural fairs, certain musical or dramatic performances, swimming pools, etc., home and garden tours, historic sites, certain amateur theatricals, certain amateur baseball games, rodeos, pageants, and certain benefit performances. Section 4234, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 501, required that price of tickets be printed on face or back of such tickets and provided a penalty for selling tickets not so stamped.