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Commissioner Vs. Sunnen

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 05, 1948

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  1. Helvering Vs. Horst US Supreme Court · Nov 25, 1940
  2. Helvering Vs. Eubank US Supreme Court · Nov 25, 1940
  3. Harrison Vs. Schaffner US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1941
  4. Commissioner Vs. Tower US Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1946
  5. Burnet Vs. Leininger US Supreme Court · Mar 14, 1932
  6. Lucas Vs. Earl US Supreme Court · Mar 17, 1930
  7. Corliss Vs. Bowers US Supreme Court · Apr 28, 1930
  8. U.S. 591 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Commissioner v. Sunnen
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  9. U.S. 591 (1948) Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen
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  10. the same facts, issues and parties but different tax years and made prior to the decisions of this Court in Helvering v. Clifford
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  11. Tower, 327 U. S. 280 , and Lusthaus v. Commissioner
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  12. thereon have not been refunded. Page 333 U. S. 596 Relying upon its own prior decision in Estate of Dodson v. Commissioner
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  13. Cromwell v. County
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  14. of Sac, supra, 94 U. S. 353 . And see Russell v. Place
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  15. Mercoid Corp. v. Mid-Continent
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  16. Tait v. Western
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  17. laws, discriminatory distinctions in tax liability, and a fertile basis for litigious confusion. Compare United States v. Stone
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  18. decided in the first proceeding, and where the controlling facts and applicable legal rules remain unchanged. Tait v. Western
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  19. from those raised in the second case, collateral estoppel has no bearing on the situation. See Travelers Ins. Co. v. Commissioner
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  20. the time of the first judgment and the second, the prior determination is not conclusive. See State Farm Ins. Co. v. Duel
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  21. As demonstrated by Blair v. Commissioner
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  22. the supervening decision cannot justly be ignored by blind reliance upon the rule of collateral estoppel. Henricksen v. Seward
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  23. Pelham Hall Co. v. Hassett
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  24. Commissioner v. Arundel-Brooks
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  25. Corrigan v. Commissioner
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  26. Page 333 U. S. 601 and see West Coast Life Ins. Co. v. Merced
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  27. Commissioner v. Western
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  28. in the pertinent statutory provisions or Treasury regulations can make the use of that rule unwarranted. Tait v. Western
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  29. bound by that determination in a subsequent proceeding even though the cause of action is different. See Evergreens v. Nunan
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  30. or documents and the same bundle of legal principles that contributed to the rendering of the first judgment. Tait v. Western
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  31. in issue, however similar or identical it may be. In this respect, the instant case thus differs vitally from Tait v. Western
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  32. the error of the Board's conclusion in the earlier proceeding, thus creating a situation like that involved in Blair v. Commissioner
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  33. supra. This change in the legal picture is said to have been brought about by such cases as Helvering v. Page
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  34. U. S. 280 , and Lusthaus v. Commissioner
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  35. mere assignment of the right to receive income is not enough to insulate the assignor from income tax liability. Lucas v. Earl
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  36. the income to make it reasonable to treat him as the recipient of the income for tax purposes. As was said in Corliss v. Bowers
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  37. where the assignee's realization of income depends upon the future rendition of services by the assignor. See Lucas v. Earl
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  38. the receipt of income by the assignee merely being the fruition of the assignor's economic gain. In Harrison v. Schaffner
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  39. U.S. at 312 U. S. 583 . Commissioner v. Tower
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  40. supra, and its companion case, Lusthaus v. Commissioner
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  41. decision is to be respected on appeal if firmly grounded in the evidence and if consistent with the law. Commissioner v. Scottish
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  42. said that the taxpayer retained the substance of all the rights which he had prior to the assignments. See Helvering v. Clifford
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  43. on substantial evidence and is consistent with the law, and would affirm that judgment for reasons stated in Dobson v. Commissioner
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  44. U. S. 489 , and Commissioner v. Scottish
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  45. Henricksen v. Seward
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  46. Monteith Bros. Co. v. United
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Commissioner v. Sunnen
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  48. Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen
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  49. Helvering v. Clifford
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  50. and Lusthaus v. Commissioner
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