Worthington v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
124 U.S. 434 · 1888
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1947 · most notably United States v. Stone & Downer Co. (1927), Cadwalader v. Zeh (1894)
9 federal appellate · 3 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 Arthur v. Lahey · Arthur v. Morrison
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the article in the present ease was in straight, flat pieces, less tlia.n one inch in width, and less than three-eighths of an inch in thickness, yet it is distinctly found that it had not been bought or sold as ‘bar iron,’ and was not known in a commercial sense as ‘bar iron.’ Therefore, although in one sense it might properly have been called ‘iron in bars,’ it was not ‘bar iron,’ although it was rolled iron. It was known in commerce as ‘nail rods,’ and it is found that in a commercial sense ‘nail rods’ were not known as ‘bar iron.’ The article therefore was a description of rolled iron ‘not otherwise provided for.’ The commercial understanding as to the description of the article by congress must prevail.””
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.