Wenger v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1960
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
Relies on Reinecke v. Smith · Fleischmann v. Commissioner · Hawkins v. Commissioner · Stewart v. Commissioner · Carlson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to relieve and compensate for practically any happening adverse to her interest which might occur”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buhl v. Commissioner
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.