Arnold Constable Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions

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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Applying that rule it follows that but for the exception the general description of ‘clothing, ready made, and wearing apparel’ would include knit goods; and when by the legislation of 1890, this exception was stricken out, it is very persuasive that Congress understood and intended that no articles of wearing apparel should be excepted from the enumeration of paragraph 396, because they were knit goods or fabrics.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tulsa Street Ry. Co. v. Oklahoma Union Traction Co.

2. “For while they are frequently interchangeable, it would seem as though “knit goods” more appropriately described manufactured articles; while “knit fabrics” referred more especially to manufactured material, piece goods. Thus in the subsequent description, in paragraph 396, are these words, “plushes and other pile fabrics.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Milbank, Leaman & Co.

3. ““The exception of a particular thing from general words, proves that, in the opinion of the lawgiver, the thing excepted would be within the„general clause had the exception not been made.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tulsa Street Ry. Co. v. Oklahoma Union Traction Co.