Brown v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Josephine C. Toscano AKA Josephine C. Zelasko v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1971), King v. Comm'r (2003)
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Furnish v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Federbush v. Commissioner · Irving S. Federbush and Sylvia C. Federbush v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Sylvia C. Federbush v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Funk v. Commissioner · Stanley 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“petitioner must show not only that she had no choice in executing her signature but also that she was 'reluctant' to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the tax shall be computed on the aggregate income and the liability with respect to the tax shall be joint and several.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may make a single return jointly of income taxes”
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.