Heinze v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 28 · 1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1942
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 v. Morgan · Davies v. Arthur · Schell v. Fauch E · James Converse v. Benjamin Burgess · Arthur v. Unkart
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is entirely immaterial that the protest did not specify that the gloves were made on frames. It was sufficient to state that the gloves were composed of cotton and silk, and that the cotton was the component material or part of chief value, and the silk was not the component material of chief value. The importers were bound only to state, as they did, that the duty of 60 per cent was illegal, and why it was illegal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrman v. Robertson“composed of cotton and silk, cotton, 'chief part, the duty of 60 per cent being only legal where silk is the chief part,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrman v. Robertson“ready-made clothing of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material of chief value,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrman v. Robertson
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.