succession tax
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 277 U.S. 1 - Blodgett v. Silberman · 1928Most cited · 445 citing opinions
a tax not upon property but upon the right or privilege of succession to the property of a deceased person
How often courts cite the case defining “succession tax”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “succession tax” — 442 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.