Hilliard v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 631 · 1962
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1986
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2008) · 26 U.S.C. § 6013
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Helvering v. Bliss · McFeely v. Commissioner
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a statute is unambiguous, it should be given effect according to its literal language.”
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.