Morgan v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1980
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 677
Relies on Sheaffer v. Commissioner · Russell v. Commissioner · Laughlin v. Commissioner · Keith 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever may have been said in 1926-1930 as to the propriety of attributing to petitioner the trust income used to discharge his debts, there is no theory upon which the income of succeeding years may be attributed to him. It was not subject to his control or demand and was not used for his benefit to discharge any of his obligations. His obligations had been paid in 1930 and no continuing obligation was left upon him. Thereafter, except as to the distributable shares, the trust income was taxable to the trust.”
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.