Laszlo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1968
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 United States v. L. Oppleman, Inc. · United States v. Adlanco Industrial Products Corp. · United States v. Guth Stern & Co. · United States v. Wm. Goldenblum & Co. · United States v. Endlein
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Miniature breech-loading pistols, having a ring attached thereto for suspending them from watch chains, have been held by this court to be dutiable as jewelry, whereas miniature breech-loading guns, 5J4 inches long, have been held to be properly dutiable as manufactures of metal not specially provided for. Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. v. United States, T. D. 24768, G. A. 5467, 6 Treas. Dec. 923 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * the so-called pistolets seem to answer the definitions of revolvers insofar as they are firearms; but they fail to meet the requirement of ejecting a projectile since they can only be used to fire blank cartridges.”
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.