Baldwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 217 · 1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1974
2 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Gray · Gray v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The government is not called upon to hunt up any ultimate consignee when there is a primary consignee to whom the goods are sent, who himself presents the invoice, makes the entry, receives the bill of lading, and gets the goods, thus being himself their ‘importer.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All merchandise imported into the United States shall for the purposes of this act be deemed and held to be the property of. the person to whom the merchandise may be consigned. * *' * ” 26 Stat. 131 , 2 U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2005.”
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.