McGuire v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.2d 431 · 1936
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably Gooding Amusement Company, Incorporated v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, F. E. Gooding v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Anna Elizabeth Gooding v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, F. E. Gooding and Elizabeth Gooding v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1956), Flanagan v. Helvering (1940)
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 115
Relies on Hyman v. Helvering · Commissioner v. Babson · Pelkey v. United States · Commissioner v. Brown · Ultimo v. Palmer
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither artifice, subterfuge, or bad faith need be present to bring a transaction within the meaning of the statute here involved, for as we read the law a taxpayer may well act with the utmost good purpose and without evil intent and yet his transactions may in effect be the equivalent of the distribution of a taxable dividend.”
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.