Universal Electronics Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 488 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Haggar Apparel Co. (1999), Orlando Food Corp. v. States (1998)
15 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 2639 · 28 U.S.C. § 2640 · 28 U.S.C. § 2643
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · William Marbury v. James Madison · Jarvis Clark Co. v. United States · United States v. New York Merchandise Co.
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y statute, Customs’ classification decision is presumed to be correct. 28 U.S.C. § 2639 (a)(1).... The presumption of correctness [] carries force on any factual components of a classification decision, such as whether the subject imports fall within the scope of the tariff provision, because facts must be proven via evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Questions of law such as [the proper interpretation of a particular tariff provision or term] lie within the domain of the courts, for “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither this court nor the Court of International Trade defers to Customs' interpretation of a tariff heading on the basis of special deference pursuant to [Chevron].”
2 later decisions 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.