Benziger v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
192 U.S. 38 · 1904
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005 · most notably Gould v. Gould (1917), United States v. Stone & Downer Co. (1927)
27 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Butterworth v. United States ex rel. Hoe · Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Sulzberger · Bell's Gap Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington · Robertson v. Downing
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““should be liberally construed in favor of the importer, and, if there were' any fair doubt as to the true construction of the provision in question, the court should resolve the doubt in his favor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“<549. * * * statuary, and specimens or casts of sculpture, where specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, * * * purposes, and not for sale; [Italics not quoted.]”
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.