West v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1972
1 federal appellate ·
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 Helvering v. Clifford · Burnet v. Harmel · Palmer v. Bender · Helvering v. Stuart · Anderson v. Helvering
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In our opinion the predominating purpose of the present contract was to secure the exploitation and development of the properties for oil, gas, and other minerals, a fact clearly evidenced by the care that petitioners exercised in drafting the duties, obligations, and covenants imposed on and accepted by Humble.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“between a lease and a conveyance of minerals”
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.