Isaacs v. Jonas’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 648 · 1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1989 · most notably United States v. Bernard Citroen (1912), G. D. Searle & Co. v. United States (1948)
4 federal appellate · 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 United States v. Schoverling · Ogden v. United States · Robertson v. Gerdan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The leaves of paper were fit for nothing else but to be made into cigarettes, and smoked with the tobacco wrapped in them; and they were used in the same way, whether never put into a cover at all, or first pasted into a cover, and afterwards torn out one by one. The covers were fit for nothing except to hold and protect the papers until made by the smoker into cigarettes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and the clause concerning smokers' articles being the more specific and definite, this clause must of course prevail over the other is the case of a subject falling within both descriptions. It is manifestly not requisite, in order to bring an article under this clause, that it should, of and by itself, be capable of being used for smoking; for the clause includes not only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Isaacs v. Jonas““The mere pasting together of the papers and the covers was in no proper-sense a process of manufacture, and did not change the use or the character of the articles.””
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.