Close v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1966
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
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Did Congress intend that tires should be separated from complete bicycles and classified under said provision in paragraph 1537 (b), or was said provision applicable only when bicycle tires were imported as separate and distinct entities unaccompanied by the other parts necessary to make complete bicycles?”
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.