Pickhardt v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 252 · 1889
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Browder v. United States (1941), Robinson-Goodman Co. v. United States (1929)
20 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 Newman 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the term “aniline dyes and colors, by whatever name known,” included articles which should be commercially known, whenever afterwards imported, as “aniline dyes and colors.” * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * that if either of them [the imported nonenumerated nonaniline dyes] bore a similitude in the use to which it might be applied, to aniline dyes known and in use in 1874, it was dutiable at the same rate as an aniline dye; that the mere application to the dyeing of fabrics would not create the similitude, but that, if there was a similitude in the mode of use, a similitude in the same kind of dyeing, producing the same colors in substantially the same way, so as to talce the place of aniline dyes in use, there would he a similitude in use; * * *. [Italics added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not withdraw them from the class to which they belong, when the language of the statute clearly and fairly includes them. But it is sufficient if it so includes them according to commercial understanding.”
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.