Morrill v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 466 · 1882
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 44 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 322 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Buttfield v. Stranahan (1904), Moses Haas v. William Henkel (1910)
119 federal appellate · 44 district · 38 state decisions
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.
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 322 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Secretary of the Treasury cannot, by his regulations, alter or amend a revenue law. All he can do is to regulate the mode of proceeding to carry into effect what Congress has enacted. In the present case we are entirely satisfied the regulation acted upon by the collector was in excess of the power of the Secretary.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 2505 of the Revised Statutes provides, among other things, that ‘animals, alive, specially imported for breeding purposes from beyond the seas, shall be admitted free (of duty), upon proof thereof Satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such regulations as he may prescribe.’ Article. 383 of the Treasury Customs Regulations provides that before a collector admits such animals free he must, among other things, ‘be satisfied that the animals are of superior stock, adapted to improving the breed in the United States.’ Jones imported certain animals, which were entered at the port of Portland, Me., and he claimed that they should be admitted free, as they were ‘specially imported for breeding purposes.’ Morrill, the collector, though the importation was for breeding purposes, demanded the duties because he was not satisfied' that the animals were of ‘superior stock.’ The duties were accordingly paid under protest, and this suit was brought to recover the amount so paid.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“such regulations as he may prescribe.’’ He prescribed a regulation that animals of superior stock adapted to improving the breed in the United States, and those only, should be admitted free under the law. The Supreme Court said:”
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.