Elam v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.2d 337 · 1930
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1956
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 Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Workman v. Boone · Louisville St Co v. Wilson · Lucas v. Howard · Ivey v. Keeling
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a position in' the service of -the State or political subdivision, the tenure of-which is Continuous, and not temporary, and-the duties-of which are established by- law- or regulations and not by agreement. An employee is one whose duties Consist in the rendition of prescribed services and not the accomplishment of specific objects, and whose services”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.