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← 24 CUSTCT 39 - Tower v. United States

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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  1. “* * * 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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