Two Hundred Chests of Tea’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 430 · 1824
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington (1891), Cadwalader v. Zeh (1894)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to -raise revenue, and for this purpose to class substances according to the general usage and known denomina tions of trade. Whether a particular article were designated by one name or another, in the country of its origin, or whether it were a simple or mixed substance, was of no importance in the view of the legislature. It did not suppose our merchants to be naturalists, or geologists, or botanists. It applied its attention to the description of articles as they derived their appellations in our own markets, in bur domestic as well as our foreign traffic.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The true inquiry, therefore, is, whether, in [the United States in] a commercial sense, the tea in question is known, and bought and sold, and used, under the denomination of bohea tea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because Congress must be understood to use the word in its known commercial sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lutz v. Magone
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.