Johnson v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2009
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 Welch v. Helvering · New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Weiszmann v. Commissioner · Davis 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commonsense approach in determining whether an educational expenditure qualifies a taxpayer for a new trade or business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ortega v. Comm'r
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.