Slover v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1963
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. Wheeler · Sansome v. Burnet · R. D. Merrill Co. v. Commissioner · McClintic v. Commissioner · Mandel 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The origin and purpose of the Sansome rule has repeatedly been described as based upon the danger that otherwise distributions of accumulated earnings to stockholders would escape tax.”
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.