| Marriage and the income tax L Zelenak S. Cal. L. Rev. 67, 339, 1993 | 215 | 1993 |
| Thinking about nonliteral interpretations of the Internal Revenue Code L Zelenak NCL Rev. 64, 623, 1985 | 143 | 1985 |
| Taxing Gains at Death L Zelenak Vand. L. Rev. 46, 361, 1993 | 135 | 1993 |
| Tax Shelters and the search for a silver bullet MA Chirelstein, LA Zelenak Colum. L. Rev. 105, 1939, 2005 | 127 | 2005 |
| Doing something about marriage penalties: a guide for the perplexed L Zelenak Tax L. Rev. 54, 1, 2000 | 117 | 2000 |
| Tax or Welfare-The Administration of the Earned Income Tax Credit L Zelenak UCLA L. Rev. 52, 1867, 2004 | 116 | 2004 |
| Taking Critical Tax Theory Seriously L Zelenak NCL rev. 76, 1521, 1997 | 109 | 1997 |
| Taxing endowment L Zelenak Duke LJ 55, 1145, 2005 | 96 | 2005 |
| Should Courts Require the Internal Revenue Service to be Consistent L Zelenak Tax L. Rev. 40, 411, 1984 | 74 | 1984 |
| Can the graduated income tax survive optimal tax analysis L Zelenak, K Moreland Tax L. Rev. 53, 51, 1999 | 71 | 1999 |
| Custom and the Rule of Law in the Administration of the Income Tax L Zelenak DuKe lJ 62, 829, 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
| Federal income taxation of individuals BI Bittker, MJ McMahon, L Zelenak (No Title), 2002 | 68 | 2002 |
| Maybe just a little bit special, after all L Zelenak Duke LJ 63, 1897, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| Redesigning the earned income tax credit as a family-size adjustment to the minimum wage L Zelenak Tax L. Rev. 57, 301, 2003 | 60 | 2003 |
| Children and the income tax L Zelenak Tax L. Rev. 49, 349, 1993 | 59 | 1993 |
| Are rifle shot transition rules and other ad hoc tax legislation constitutional L Zelenak Tax L. Rev. 44, 563, 1988 | 59 | 1988 |
| When Good Preferences Go Bad: A Critical Analysis of the Anti-Tax Shelter Provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 L Zelenak Tex. L. Rev. 67, 499, 1988 | 57 | 1988 |
| Complex tax legislation in the TurboTax era L Zelenak Colum. J. Tax L. 1, 91, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| The Reification of Metaphor: Income Taxes, Consumption Taxes and Human Capital L Zelenak Tax. L. Rev. 51, 1, 1995 | 45 | 1995 |
| The Sometimes-Taxation of the Return to Risk-Bearing under a Progressive Income Tax L Zelenak SMUL Rev. 59, 879, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
