Anthony v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Clapp v. Commissioner (1989), Greenberg v. Commissioner (1980)
5 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 Flast v. Cohen · Poe v. Ullman · Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · United States v. Richardson · David Muskrat v.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that the petitioner bear * * * (his) fair share of the income tax does not interfere with the right to exercise * * * (his) religion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.