Bartram v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
122 U.S. 116 · 1887
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1981 · most notably Whitney v. Robertson (1888), Rocca v. Thompson (1912)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those- stipn-. lations, even if conceded to be self-executing by the way of á proviso or exception to the general law imposing the duties, do not cover concessions like those made to the Hawaiian Islands for a valuable consideration.. They weré pledges of the two contracting parties, the United States and the king of Denmark, to each other, that in the imposition of duties on goods imported into one of the countries which were the produce or manufacture of the other, there should be no discrimination against them in favor of goods of like character imported from any other country. They imposed an obligation upon both countries to avoid hostile legislation in that respect. But they were not intended to interfere with special arrangements with other countries founded upon a concession of special privileges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitney v. Robertson“No higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into the Unitód States of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Dominican Republic, or of her fisheries; and no higher or other duty shall be imposed on the importation into the Dominican Eepublie of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or their fisheries, than are or shall be payable on the like articles the growth, produce,' or manufacture of any other foreign country, or its fisheries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitney v. Robertson“enjoy the same freely if thé concession were freely made, and upon allowing the same compensation if the concession were conditional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitney v. Robertson
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.