Bingler v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
401 federal appellate · 52 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,122 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Cartwright (1973), National Muffler Dealers Assn., Inc. v. United States (1979)
401 federal appellate · 52 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJohnson v. Bingler (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7805
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. South Texas Lumber Co · United States v. Correll · Blasius v. United States · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jacobson
Cited together with Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. South Texas Lumber Co · United States v. Correll · National Muffler Dealers Assn., Inc. v. United States · United States v. Cartwright · Fulman v. United States
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 1,122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relatively disinterested, 'no strings' educational grants, with no requirement of any substantial quid pro quo from the recipients.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A fellowship grant generally means an amount paid or allowed to, or for the benefit of, an individual to aid him in the pursuit of study or research.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be sustained unless unreasonable and plainly inconsistent with the revenue statutes.”
33 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.