Considine v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2019
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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Bogardus v. Commissioner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. Zim Israel Navigation Co. · DeJong 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.
“as used in section 170 has been generally held synonymous with the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our examination is not limited to the narrow probing of the subjective attitude of the donor and the degree of charitable benevolence which may have prompted the transfer. We must look at the true nature of the transaction, and make an objective inquiry as to whether what is called a gift actually amounts to that in reality.”
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.