Freedson v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Brooks v. Commissioner (1984), Gordon v. Commissioner (1980)
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wenzler v. Pitchess · Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Colorado v. Franc · Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rival consideration[s] * * * [involving] the policy in favor of having cases heard on their merits with the policy in favor of avoiding harassment to the defending party arising from unjustifiable delay.”
2 later decisions 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.