South Carolina v. Regan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
150 federal appellate · 91 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Hibbs Director Arizona Department of Revenue v. Winn et al. (2004), South Carolina v. Baker (1988)
150 federal appellate · 91 district · 21 state decisions
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 103 · 26 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 501 · 26 U.S.C. § 6212 · 26 U.S.C. § 6532 · 26 U.S.C. § 6694 · 26 U.S.C. § 7421 · 26 U.S.C. § 7428
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person, whether or not such person is the person against whom such tax was assessed.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress did not intend the Act to apply to actions brought by aggrieved parties for whom it has not provided an alternative remedy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statutory scheme that provided an alternative remedy.”
8 later decisions 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.