Beard v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Jacklin v. Commissioner (1982), Schatten v. United States (1984)
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 Gerry v. United States · Bardwell v. Commissioner · Bardwell v. Commissioner · In Re Questions Submitted by United States Dist. Ct. · Gordon v. Random House, Inc
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the marital or family relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. The intent of the parties; 2. Whether valuable property rights were surrendered in exchange for the payments; 3. Whether the payments are subject to termination upon death or remarriage; 4. Whether the payments are secured; 5. Whether the payments equal approximately one-half of the property accumulated by the parties during marriage; 6. Whether the need of the recipient was a factor in determining the amounts payable; and 7. Whether there was a separate provision for support and/or division of property in the remainder of the decree or agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“morass of the decided cases, many of them irreconcilable”
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.