Robertson v. Rosenthal’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 460 · 1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1969
1 federal appellate ·
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inasmuch as Congress, for the thirteen years prior to 1883, treated hair-pins for revenue purposes as a distinct article from “pins, solid-head or other,” we consider it unreasonable to conclude that the legislation of 18S3 was intended to do away with a distinction manifestly regarded as inherent in the thing itself. In short, it is doubtful if it could ever have been properly held that hair-pins were ejusdem generis with the pins referred to in the tariff acts, but if this could have been so prior to 1870, we are of opinion that at that time Congress assigned them to a class by themselves, because essentially sui generis, and, therefore, that their not being specifically enumerated in 1883 did not relegate them to the category of “pins, solid-head or other,” as ingeniously argued by counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It will be perceived that although hair-pins are not mentioned eo nomine, this last paragraph covers iron and steel hair-pins, as was ruled as to the latter by the department in 1875, in the construction and application of similar language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Manufactures, articles, or wares not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel * * * or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured.”
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.