United States v. Calamaro’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
259 federal appellate · 40 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Marchetti v. United States (1968), Grosso v. United States (1968)
259 federal appellate · 40 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Calamaro (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Glenshaw Glass Company · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Corn Products Refining Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Brewster v. Gage · Helvering v. Winmill
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither we nor the Commissioner may rewrite the statute simply because we may feel that the scheme it creates could be improved upon.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attempted addition to the statute of something which is not there”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each person who is engaged in the business of accepting wagers”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.