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← 45 BTA 405 - Coley v. Commissioner

Coley v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

1941

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
February 1962
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Smith v. Commissioner · Britt v. Commissioner · Frelmort Realty Corp. v. Commissioner · Robinson v. Commissioner · Murchison 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a distribution by a corporation in complete cancellation or redemption of a part. of its stock, or one of a series of distributions in complete cancellation or redemption of all or a portion of its stock.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “amounts distributed in partial liquidation”
    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.