Sheaffer v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1987
3 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 Douglas v. Willcuts · Helvering v. Blumenthal · Fletcher Trust Co. v. Commissioner · Staley v. Commissioner · Union Pacific Railroad v. Utterbach
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.
“both Virginia and Craig must be considered as donors of the 70,000 shares of the Pen Company stock,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by statute, regulations, and court decisions made primarily liable for the gift tax,”
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.