Oberteuffer v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 499 · 1886
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Pullman's Palace-Car Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1891), General Oil Co. v. Crain (1908)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Oberteuffer v. Robertson
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That If any packages, sacks, crates, boxes or coverings of any kind shall be of any material or form designed to evade duties thereon, or designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of goods to the United States, the same shall be subject to a duty of one hundred per centum ad valorem, upon the actual value of the same.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sec. 7. That sections twenty-nine hundred and seven and twenty-nine hundred and eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and section fourteen of the act entitled ‘An act to amend the customs revenue laws, and to repeal moities,’ approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and hereafter none of the charges imposed by said sections or any other provisions of existing law shall be estimated in ascertaining the value of goods to be imported, nor shall the value of the usual and necessary sacks, crates, boxes or covering of any kind be estimated as part of their value in determining the amount of duties for which they are liable: Provided-, That -if any packages, sacks, crates, boxes or coverings of any kind shall be of any material or form designed to evade duties thereon, or designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of goods to the U nited States, the same shall be subject to a duty of one hundred per centum ad valorem upon the actual value of the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Magone v. Rosenstein
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.