Schmieder v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 645 · 1885
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1969 · most notably United States v. Spaulding (1935), American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington (1891)
10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Little · Greenleaf v. Goodrich · Swan v. Arthur
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was there decided that if they [the delaines] were similar in product, in adaptation to uses, and in uses, they were of similar description, even though in commerce they might be classed as different articles. Upon that question the decision in Greenleaf v. Goodrich must be taken as conclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Undoubtedly the language of tariff acts is to be construed according to its commcreiai signification, but it will always be understood to have the same meaning in commerce that it has in the community at large;, unless the contrary is shown. Swan v. Arthur, 103 U. S. 597 , 598, 26 L. Ed. 525 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“goods of similar description to delaines”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cadwalader v. Zeh
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.