Cunningham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.2d 394 · 1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1993
3 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 2035
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Ohio v. Kentucky · United States v. Wells · School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · Allen v. Trust Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is entirely normal for an individual to make gifts during his lifetime to the natural objects of his affection and bounty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pattern of benevolence not engendered by the thought of death.”
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.