David Kaufman & Sons Co. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
216 U.S. 610 · 1910
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1994 · most notably Doris Griffith v. State of Connecticut (1910), Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Town of Graham (1920)
10 federal appellate ·
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 Downes v. Bidwell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“126. Imports from Canal Zone. All laws affecting imports of articles, goods, wares, and merchandise and entry of persons into the United States from foreign countries shall apply to articles, goods, wares, and merchandise and persons coming from the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and seeking entry into any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In view of the treaty between the Republic of Panama and the United States [33 Stat. at L. 2234], and the various acts of Congress relating to such zone, the principles laid down in Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U. S. 244 , [45 L. ed. 1088, 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 770,] were decisive of the questions raised herein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.