Wessel v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2003
1 district ·
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 United States v. Heffner · Olsen v. Helvering · Perlmutter v. Commissioner · Commissioner v. Oswego Falls Corp. · Oswego Falls Corp. 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are not prepared to exact the burdensome formalistic detail of requiring a written designation to acting supervisory personnel each time the incumbent of the position temporarily absents himself.”
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.