Arnold v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 104 · 1815
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Gozlon-Peretz v. United States (1991), Brown v. Maryland (1827)
29 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended, that this statute did. not take effect until the 2d day of July; nor, indeed, until it was formally promulgated and published.. We cannot yield assent to this construction. The statute was to take .effect from its passage; and it is a general rule that where the computation is to be made from an act done, the day of which the act is done is to be included.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burgess v. Salmon · In re Stevenson“* * * duties did not accrue in the fiscal sense of the term, until the vessel arrived at the port of entry. * * * It is understood that in case of an increase of duty, the United States have always demanded and received the additional duty if the goods have not arrived at the port of entry before the time fixed for the commencement of such additional duty, although the vessel may have arrived within the collection district before that time. The same rule of construction is to be observed when there is a diminution of duty. [Italics quoted.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * To constitute an importation so as to attach the right to duties, it is necessary not only that there should be an arrival within the limits of the United States, and of a collection district but also within the limits of some port of entry.”
3 later decisions 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.