Barney v. Rickard’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 352 · 1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1944
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 William Cary and Samuel Cary v. Edward Curtis · Nelson Elliott v. Samuel Swartwout · Erskine v. Van Arsdale · Schell v. Fauch E · Marriott v. Brune
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We assume that the procedure in estimating duties was for the collector, taking the invoice as true, to ascertain the amount which prima facie the importer should pay, and this he was compelled to pay in cash forthwith unless he entered the goods for warehousing.”
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.