Versteeg v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 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
Relies on Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Gooch Milling & Elevator Co · Espinoza v. Commissioner · Pyo v. Commissioner · Kluger 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an affirmative duty on each attorney to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the viability of a pleading before it is signed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Best v. Comm'r · May v. Comm'r“The signature of counsel or a party constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading; that, to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry, it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation. * * *”
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.