United States v. Euge’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
241 federal appellate · 26 district · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 656 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Upjohn Company v. United States (1981), Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa (1989)
241 federal appellate · 26 district · 223 state decisions — followed in 27 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
reviewedUnited States v. Euge (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6201 · 26 U.S.C. § 7601 · 26 U.S.C. § 7602 · 26 U.S.C. § 7604 · 26 U.S.C. § 7801 · 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Gault · Gilbert v. California
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 656 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be upheld absent express statutory prohibition or substantial countervailing policies”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent unambiguous directions from Congress.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determining the liability of any person for any internal revenue tax.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.