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Eleanor Zirin v. E. A. McGinnes District Director of Internal Revenue’s Empirical Analysis

282 F.2d 113 · 1960

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
September 1976
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Williams v. Fanning · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · Perkins v. Elg · Iselin v. United States

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

  1. “If a federal officer does or attempts to do acts which are in excess of his authority or under authority not validly conferred, equity has jurisdiction to restrain him.”
    2 later decisions 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.