Mitchell v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2004 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1971), Magnon v. Commissioner (1980)
4 federal appellate ·
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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Poe v. Seaborn · Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. Etten · United States v. Malcolm · Goodell v. Koch
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Both the wife and her heirs or assigns have the privilege of being able to exonerate themselves from the debts contracted during the marriage, by renouncing the partnership or community of gains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless it is shown that such failure [to timely file the return] is due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect”
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.