Barker v. Magruder’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.2d 122 · 1938
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably Commissioner v. Wilcox (1946), National City Bank v. Helvering (1938)
39 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet · United States v. Sullivan · Reynolds v. Cooper · Brown v. Helvering · Corn Exchange Bank v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The correct answer, as we think, depends not so much, as appellants urge, upon the legal right to enforce collections as upon the existing probability of its being received.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“was employed that we tend to construe the choice of language referred to above as significant. 20 We agree with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which has said on this same topic: 21”
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.