Hedden v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 520 · 1894
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1948 · most notably Knowlton v. Moore (1900), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895)
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 McDonald v. Hovey · Newman v. Arthur
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We Rave no authority, where the duty is thus specifically declared, to make an exception, based upon something that might bo added to the cloth in the way of figures or patterns placed upon the groundwork of the fabric. The groundwork being cotton cloth, within the terms and provisions of the statute, and the threads thereof being countable, the goods were dutiable, by the express language of the statute, at the rate which was exacted by the collector from the defendant in error.””
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.