Matthews v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Bokum v. Commissioner (1990), Weber v. Commissioner (1995)
4 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 5 U.S.C. § 2105 · 5 U.S.C. § 5341 · 5 U.S.C. § 5550 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 7204 · 5 U.S.C. § 7902 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)
Relies on Welch v. Helvering · Neely v. Commissioner · Bixby v. Commissioner · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jacobson · Standard Oil Co of California v. Johnson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the crucial test lies in the right of control, or lack of it, which the employer may exercise respecting the manner in which the service is to be performed and the means to be employed in its accomplishment, as well as the result to be obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the bill extends the exclusion to certain overseas independent contractors and teachers at certain schools for U.S. dependents who are not employees of the U.S. or any agency thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“paid by the United States or an agency thereof to an employee of the United States or an agency thereof.”
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.