Origet v. Hedden’s Empirical Analysis
155 U.S. 228 · 1894
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1982 · most notably Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States (1933), Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Stranahan (1909)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 Auffmordt v. Hedden · Buckstaff v. Russell · Lent v. Tillson · Passavant v. United States
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.
“* * * we are not inclined to deny that it might happen where the collector had given specific direction for the examination of more than 1 package out of 10, and the importer had relied on the direction,' the omission to examine the number of packages directed might under some circumstances be availed of by him as constituting a want of the examination to which he was entitled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The collector shall designate on the invoice at least one package of every invoice, and one package at least of every ten packages of merchandise, and a greater number should he or either of the appraisers deem it necessary, imported into such port, to be -opened, examined and appraised, and shall order the package so designated to the public stores for examination ; and if any package be found by the appraisers to contain any article not specified in the invoice, and they or a majority of them shall be of opinion that such article was omitted in the invoice with fraudulent intent on the part of the shipper, owner or agent, the contents of the entire package in which the article may be, shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction ; but if the appraisers shall be of opinion that no such fraudulent intent existed, then the value of such article shall be added to the entry, and the duties thereon paid according^, and the same shall be delivered to the importer, agent or consignee. Such forfeiture may, however, be remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury on the production of evidence satisfactory to him that no fraud was intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Sec. 2939. The collector of the port of New York shall not, under any circumstances, direct to be sent for examination and appraisement less than one package of every invoice, and one package at least out of every ten packages of merchandise, and a greater number should he, or the appraiser, or any assistant appraiser, deem it necessary. When the Secretary of the Treasury, however, from the character and description of the merchandise, may be of the opinion that the examination of a less proportion of packages will amply protect the revenue, he may, by special regulation, direct a less number of packages to be examined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.