Rapp v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “We have then this situation: The testimony establishes that among those who use the products at issue they are regarded as medicinal in character and are chiefly used for medicinal purposes and no vegetable use of them is shown except perhaps in two instances where purely experimental trials were made by persons who do not claim to use the articles regularly or habitually.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Cust. Ct. 70 - Oy Wo Tong Co. v. United States

2. “The word edible, we think, must be given its common meaning and construed in the sense of its ordinary use and acceptance. Webster’s New International Dictionary gives the adjective meaning of the word as “Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.” * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Cust. Ct. 70 - Oy Wo Tong Co. v. United States