United States v. Sutherland International Despatch’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “* * * Exhibit 1 shows the articles to be something more than brass channels. The brass channels forming a part of said article has been subjected to a manufacturing process. The testimony shows that the articles have been dedicated to a single use, and have no other use than in rectangular windows of marine craft, a use disclosed by the record to be different from the use to which brass channels without a further manufacturing process are put.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. L. C. Kramer Co. v. United States · Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America v. United States

2. “In the case at bar, * * * it may be said that although the major part of the article here involved, in its first estate, was a brass channel, it nevertheless became something more than that when it was subsequently lined with felt. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. H. W. Brintnall Co. v. United States

3. “We further think that this case is controlled in principle by our decision in the case of United States v. Strauss & Buegeleisen, 20 C. C. P. A. (Customs) 378, T. D. 46184, and cases therein cited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. L. C. Kramer Co. v. United States