Corning v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1955
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 Douglas v. Willcuts · Burnet v. Wells · Helvering v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · Rands v. Commissioner · Ashforth 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) in the grantor, either alone or in conjunction with any person not having a substantial adverse interest in the disposition of such part of the corpus or the income therefrom, or (2) in any person not having a substantial adverse interest in the disposition of such part of the corpus or the income therefrom,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Petitioner thus reserved the vested right to revest in himself the corpus of ’both trusts at some time in the future. The power to exercise this right, not its existence, during the tax year, was contingent.”
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.