Kellems v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Injured Workers of Kansas v. Franklin (1997), Quinn v. Commissioner (1974)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Bolling v. Sharpe · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · Poe v. Seaborn
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Petitioner's central argument thus hangs on the issue of whether this Court `perceives' a rational basis for the distinction drawn between married and single persons for purposes of the applicable rates of taxation."”
1 later decision 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.