Traficant v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Traficant v. Commissioner (1989), Spear v. Commissioner (1988)
2 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Baxter v. Palmigiano · Helvering v. Mitchell · James v. United States · United States v. Rylander · Rowlee 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Court may draw a negative inference from facts over which petitioner has asserted his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only that reasonable doubt existed that the accused was guilty of the offenses charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.