Long v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2008
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 Gregory v. Helvering · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Court Holding Co · Morgan v. Commissioner · Crane 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The labels applied to a transaction for purposes of State law are not binding for Federal tax purposes.”
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.