Hartranft v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 237 · 1890
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1965 · most notably Arnold Constable Co v. United States (1893), Seeberger v. Schlesinger (1894)
13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Arthur's Executors v. Butterfield · Solomon v. Arthur · Myer v. Hartranft
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, including such as have India robber as a component material, not specially provided for in this act, and all Jacquard, figured goods in the piece, made on looms, of which silk is the component material of chief value, dyed In the yam, and containing two or more colors in the filling, fifty per centrum ad valorem: Provided, that all manufactures, of which, wool is a component material shall be classified and assessed for duty ass manufactures of wool.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all chemical compounds and salts, by whatever name known, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘‘In Schedule K it is ‘made wholly or in part of wool,’ thereby reaching to all manufactured articles of which any portion is wool, while in Schedule L it is narrower and more limited — ‘made of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value.’ This is a special enumeration rather than the other.””
2 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.