Farr v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1987
1 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 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Schafer v. Helvering · Burnett v. Commissioner · Garcia v. Philippine Islands · Donander 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 117. Capital Gains and Losses. (a) Definitions. — As used in this chapter— (1) Capital assets. — The term “Capital assets” means property held by the taxpayer (whether or not connected with his trade or business), but does not include stock in trade of the taxpayer or other property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close of the taxable year, or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business, * » *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood 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.