Tower v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
March 1963
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on 21 Cust. Ct. 56 - H. a. Johnson Co. v. United States · Emery v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“* * * Nevertheless, the impairment of the physical components of the wheat and the destruction of the principle which made it available as seed affected the quality, not the essence, of the article, and it can not be said that either factor or both together destroyed the wheat or evolved something new which was not wheat. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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