United States v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.2d 702 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2015
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7203
Relies on United States v. Pomponio · Schmerler Ford, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Porth · United States v. Blanton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o act willfully in this context means to act 'voluntarily, purposefully, deliberately, and intentionally, as distinguished from accidentally, inadvertently, or negligently.'”
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.