Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 29 state decisions

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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Manufacture implies a change, but every change is not manufacture, and yet every change in an article is the result of treatment, labor, and manipulation. But something more is necessary, ... There must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge, “having a distinctive name, character, or use.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Midwest International Co. v. United States · Phillips Harborplace, Inc. v. State Department of Assessments & Taxation

2. “Sec. 25. That where imported materials on which duties have been paid are used in the manufacture of articles manufactured or produced in the United States, there shall be allowed on the exportation of such articles a drawback equal in amount to the duties paid on the materials used, less one per centum of such duties * * *. (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rolland Freres, Inc. v. United States

3. ““* * * There must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge, ‘having a distinctive name, character or use.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bibb v. Commonwealth