United States v. Scovil’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 53 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 471 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Aquilino v. United States (1960), United States v. Pioneer American Insurance (1963)
197 federal appellate · 53 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 United States v. Security Trust & Savings Bank · United States v. Gilbert Associates, Inc. · United States v. Waddill, Holland & Flinn, Inc. · People of State of Illinois Gordon v. Campbell
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 471 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“purchaser within the meaning of § 3672 usually means one who acquires title for a valuable consideration in the manner of vendor and vendee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he five day period specified by Sec. 41-160 of the South Carolina code had not elapsed. During this time the tenant-taxpayer could have reacquired any interest the landlord may have had in his property by posting bond as provided by the Code.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]oreover, the distress lien was not perfected in the federal sense at the time the Government's liens were filed. Such perfection is, of course, a matter of federal law.”
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.