Collins v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1996
2 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 Gregory v. Helvering · Deputy v. du Pont · Knetsch v. United States · Old Colony Co v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Acro Manufacturing Co. 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax.”
2 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.