Altman Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
224 U.S. 583 · 1912
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Meyer v. State of Nebraska (1923), United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
18 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 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 Field v. Clark · Edye v. Robertson · United States v. Rauscher · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Whitney v. Robertson
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * While it may be true that this commercial agreement, made under authority of the Tariff Act of 1897, § 3, was not a treaty possessing the dignity of one requiring ratification by the Senate of the United States, it was an international compact, negotiated between the representatives of two sovereign nations, and made in the name and on behalf of the contracting countries, and dealing with important commercial relations between the two countries, and was proclaimed by the President. If not technically a treaty requiring ratification, nevertheless it was a compact authorized by the Congress of the United States, negotiated and proclaimed under the authority of its President.” 8”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * but the term “statuary” as used in this Act shall be understood to include only such statuary as is cut, carved, or otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block or mass of marble, stone, or alabaster, or from metal, and as is the professional production of a statuary or sculptor only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the agreement was made under the authority and in accordance with § 3 of the tariff act of 1897, in which very act the term statuary, as used therein, was specifically defined, as we have already stated.”
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.