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136 F. 513 · 1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1943
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 The Diamond Rings · The Merritt · United States v. The Miranda
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any foreign port or place there shall be paid duties as follows: On vessels built within the United States but belonging wholly or in part to subjects of , foreign powers, at the rate of thirty cents per ton; on other vessels not of the United States, at the rate of fifty- cents per ton. Upon every vessel not of the United States, which shall be entered in one district from another district, having on board goods, wares or merchandise talcen in one district to be delivered in another district, duties shall be paid at the rate of fifty cents per ton. Nothing in this section shall be deemed in any wise to impair any rights or privileges which have been or may be acquired by any foreign nation under the laws and treaties of the United States relative to the duty of tonnage on vessels. On all foreign vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any foreign port or place, to and with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade, there shall be paid a duty at the rate of two dollars per ton; 'and none of the duties on tonnage above mentioned shall be levied on the vessels of any foreign’nation if the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nations, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished. In addition to the tonnage-duty above imposed, there shall be pai”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“.“Vessels registered pursuant to law and no others except such as shall be duly qualified according to law for carrying on the coasting trade and fisheries or one of them shall be deemed vessels of the United States and entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such vessels.””
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.