People of the State of New York v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions

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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In addition to what is said above it is apparent that the object of these New York enactments goes far beyond any correct viewoof the purposes of inspection law. The commissioners are ‘to inspect all persons arriving from any foreign country to ascertain who among them are habitual criminals, or pauper lunatics, idiots, or imbeciles, * * * or orphan persons, without means or capacity to support themselves and subject to become a public charge.’ It may safely be said that these are matters incapable of being satisfactorily ascertained by inspection. What is an inspection? Something which can be accomplished by looking at or weighing or measuring the thing to be inspected, or applying to it at once some crucial test. When testimony or evidence is to be taken and examined, it is not inspection in any sense whatever.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People ex rel. Bunker v. Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Co. · William R. Compton Co. v. Allen

2. ““That there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of fifty cents for each and every passenger not a citizen of the United States who shall come by steam or sail vessel from a foreign port to any port within the United States. The said duty shall be paid to the collector of customs of the port to which such passenger shall come, or if there be no collector at such port, then to the collector of customs nearest thereto, by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel, within twenty-four hours after the entry thereof into such port. The money thus collected shall be paid into the United States treasury, and shall constitute a fund to be called the immi grant fund, and shall he used, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, to defray the expense of regulating immigration under this act, and for the care of immigrants arriving in the United States, for the relief of such as are in distress, and for the general purposes and expenses of carrying this act into effect. The duty imposed by this section shall he a lien upon the vessels which shall bring such passengers into the United States, and shall bo a debt in favor of the United States agaiiist the owner or owners of such vessels; and the payment of such duty may bo enforced by any legal or equitable remedy; provided, that no greater sum shall be expended for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, at any port, than shall have been collected at such port. “ Sec. 2. That the secretary of the treasury ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edye v. Robertson

3. ““ There shall be levied and collected a duty of one dollar for each and every alien passenger who shall, come by vessel from a foreign port to the port of Few York, for whom a tax has not heretofore been paid; the same to be paid to the chamberlain of the city of ISTew York by the master, owner, agent, or consignee of every such vessel within 24 hours after the entry thereof into the port of Few York.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People ex rel. Bunker v. Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Co.