Atkins v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.2d 761 · 1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1951
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 Interstate Trust & Banking Co. v. Irwin · Ellis v. Prevost · Montgomery v. Chaney · Succession of Rabasse · Succession of Maltry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A natural obligation is one which can not be enforced by action, but which is binding on the party who makes it, in conscience and according to natural justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“2. A natural obligation is a sufficient consideration for a new contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such obligations as the law has rendered invalid * * *”
2 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.