Arthur v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
112 U.S. 495 · 1884
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Knowlton v. Moore (1900), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895)
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 James Converse v. Benjamin Burgess · Astor v. Merritt · Woodward v. Murray
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.
“* * * A protest is not required to be made with technical precision, but is sufficient if it shows fairly that the objection afterwards made at the trial was in the mind of the party and was brought to the knowledge of the collector, so as to secure to the government the practical advantage which the statute was designed to secure. * * *”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Books, household effects, or libraries, or parts of libraries, in use, of persons or families from foreign countries.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persons who dwell together as a family constitute a `household.'”
4 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.