White v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2003
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 71
Relies on Gammill v. Commissioner · Gammill v. Commissioner · Carmichael v. Commissioner · Robert E. Houston v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mary Schwab, Formerly Mary R. Houston v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Fidler 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Such payments are subject to any one or more of the contingencies of death of either spouse, remarriage of the wife, or change in the economic status of either spouse, and (b) Such payments are in the nature of alimony or an allowance for support.”
3 later decisions 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.