Smith v. Bader’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Burgess v. Premier Corp. (1984), Austin v. Loftsgaarden (1982)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Relies on Dupuy v. Dupuy · Dupuy v. Dupuy · Federal Savings & Loan Insurance v. Krueger · Wiesenberger v. W. E. Hutton & Co. · Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.) Inc. v. Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough there is no privilege protecting the production of tax returns, the courts have been reluctant to order routinely their discovery. This historic trend seems to stem in part from the private nature of the sensitive information contained therein, and in part from the public interest in encouraging the filing by taxpayers of complete and accurate returns.”
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.