Tax
Federal tax suits and IRS third-party actions.
53,240 federal civil cases in this category. Across all of them:
- Dismissed49.5%
- Settled19%
- Plaintiff win13.5%
- Defendant win11.5%
- Decided — other1.5%
- Other1.4%
- Transferred1.2%
- Remanded1.2%
- Mixed1.1%
- Affirmed0.1%
- Denied0%
By claim type
- Tax suits49,662 cases · 13,915 reached a judgment51%plaintiff win
- IRS 3rd party suits 26 USC 76093,578 cases · 774 reached a judgment14.1%plaintiff win
Source: FJC Integrated Database (public domain), via CourtListener — federal civil cases filed and terminated, 1988–present. Figures are descriptive statistics about how cases of a given type have closed in a given court. They describe the historical record — not a prediction or assessment of any specific case. Not legal advice.