Gizzi v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Campbell v. Commissioner (1999), D'Avanzo v. United States (2005)
2 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
Relies on Blackburn v. Commissioner · Seckel v. Commissioner · Silver 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the taxpayer can establish that (1) he at one time possessed adequate records and (2) that his present lack of records is due to fire, flood, or other casualty beyond his control, then he is free of the normal substantiation requirements. The taxpayer in such a situation must instead reasonably reconstruct his expenditures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficient evidence corroborating his own statement,”
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.