Buck v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2004
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. § 213 · 26 U.S.C. § 262
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Flowers · Connelly v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Donnelly v. Commissioner · Bruton v. Commissioner · Miller 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to drive petitioner to and from his places of business was a matter of petitioner's own personal choice, comfort, and convenience and was not 'primarily for or essential to' medical care”
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.