Latimer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
223 U.S. 501 · 1912
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992 · most notably Hecht v. Malley (1924), Hecht v. Malley (1924)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Claassen v. United States · Hartranft v. Wiegmann · Worthington v. Robbins · Cross v. Burke
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * to remnants and by-products of small value that have not the quality or utility either of the finished product or of the raw material.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The words, having received such a con struction under the act of 1883, must be given the same meaning when used in the Tariff Act of 1897, on the theory that, in using the phrase in the later statute, Congress adopted the construction already given it by this court. ...” [223 U.S. at page 504, 32 S.Ct. page 242, 56 L.Ed. 526 ]”
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.