Matson Navigation Co. v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1996
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 26 U.S.C. § 167
Relies on Massey Motors, Inc. v. United States · Shiosaki v. Commissioner · Casey v. Commissioner · Hoeme v. Commissioner · Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the petitioner vigorously argues that retroactive application of Rev. Proc. 68-27 is inequitable, it cites no legal authority in support of this argument * * * [ 67 T.C. at 950 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.