Sonzinsky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 486 · 1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1994
5 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · United States v. Butler · Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · United States v. Jin Fuey Moy
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.
“The act ... evidences no announced purpose outside the constitutional authority. [It is] unusually free from regulative provisions, merely providing for a tax in varying amount upon different classifications of persons and requiring such persons to register____”
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.