Macy v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis
224 F. 359 · 1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1931
2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Buttfield v. Stranahan · Vicksburg Waterworks Co. v. Vicksburg · Merritt v. Welsh · Williams v. Molther
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the Usages and customs of the tea trade, including the testing of an-infusion of the same in boiling water, and, if necessary, chemical analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waite v. Macy“unlawful . . . to import any merchandise as tea which is inferior in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the standards”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waite v. Macy“of purity, quality, and fitness for consumption, of all kinds of tea imported;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waite v. Macy
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.