Tower v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
March 1968
most recently cited
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“****** Us articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device, such as electric motors, fans, locomotives, portable tools, furnaces, heaters, ovens, ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, and signs; all the foregoing, and parts thereof, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of metal, and not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * It is a metal case equipped with lens, bulb, and wiring, apparently ready to receive the electric battery to make it immediately available for use as a complete electric flashlight. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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