Monaghan v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2013
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. § 453
Relies on Watson v. Commissioner · Rosenberg v. United States · Williams v. McGowan · Michaels v. Commissioner · Brooks 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sale of a going business operated as a proprietorship has long been considered as a sale of the separate business assets for purposes of ascertaining whether profit results in capital gain or ordinary income. Williams v. McGowan, 152 F. 2d 570 (C.A. 2) ; Ernest A. Watson, 15 T.C. 800 , affd. 197 F. 2d 56 , affd. 345 U.S. 544 , rehearing denied 345 U.S. 1003 ; Rev. Rul. 55-79, 1955- 1 C.B. 370 , * * *”
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.