Tutton v. Viti’s Empirical Analysis
108 U.S. 312 · 1883
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ There is nothing in the Acts of Congress to limit the professional productions of a statuary or sculpture to. those executed by a sculptor with his own chisel from models of his own creation, and to exclude those made by him, or by his assistants under his direction, from models or from completed statues of another sculptor, or from works of art, the original author of which is unknown. [Italics ours.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Paintings and statuary, not otherwise provided for: ten per centum ad valorem. But the term statuary,’ as used in the laAvs noiv in force imposing duties on foreign importations, shall be understood to include'professional productions of a statuary or of a sculptor only.” Rev. Stat. 2d ed. 478, 479.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Merritt v. Tiffany
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.