Benak v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2001
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. § 1244
Relies on Welch v. Helvering · Deputy v. du Pont · Higgins v. Commissioner · United States v. S S White Dental Mfg Co of Pennsylvania · Whipple 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any debt which becomes worthless within the taxable year.”
1 later decision 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.