Woolard v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 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
Relies on North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet · Healy v. Commissioner · Estate of B. F. Whitaker v. Commissioner · Phillips 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that income received by a taxpayer may have to be returned at some later time does not deprive it of its character as taxable income when received.”
3 later decisions 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.