United States v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 750 · 1975
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Edwards v. Commissioner (1982), United States v. Barnes (1979)
56 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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
Relies on United States v. Porth · United States v. Daly
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a return 'which does not contain any information relating to the taxpayer's income from which the tax can be computed is not a return within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“most of which are innocuous on their face.”
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.