Muir v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1970
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 A. J. Schwarzler Co. v. Commissioner · Rock Spring Distilling Co. 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only evidence offered in the attempt to prove good will was the average annual earnings and the average tangible assets as shown by the books of the years 1908 to 1912, inclusive. These figures, standing alone, are not sufficient evidence of the existence of good will to warrant our disturbing the Commissioner’s finding.”
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.