Russell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 623 · 1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1936
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Hadden v. The Collector · Sturges v. The Collector · Gautier v. Arthur
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was very early contended by importers that the law was not intended to affect goods which were on the free list, and exempt from any duty, — a position somewhat plausible from the words of the law, which were these: “A duty of ten per cent ad valorem in addition to the duties now imposed on any such articles.” It was argued that the ten per cent could not be said to be “in addition to the duties now imposed,” where no duties were imposed. But such a construction would evidently have defeated the purpose of the law; and, accordingly, it was decided by this court in Hadden v. The Collector, 5 Wall. 107 , that the act of 1862 (which was then under consideration) applied to goods which at the date of the act were duty free, as well as to those which were subject to duty. Reliance was placed in that case, it is true, on the literal phraseology of the law; but the judgment of the court was in conformity with the clear intent of the legislature, as we have supposed it to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there shall be hereafter collected and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of countries [east] of the Cape of Good Hope (except raw cotton and raw silk as reeled from the cocoon, or not further advanced than tram, thrown, or organzine) when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per cent ad valorem in addition to the duties imposed on any such articles when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was a general commercial regulation for the encouragement of direct trade with those countries [countries east of the Cape of Good Hope], as well as for the benefit of American shipping,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.