United States v. Forty Barrels’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2010
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Savage v. Jones · United States of America v. Lexington Mill & Elevator Company · Four Hundred and Forty-Three Cans of Frozen Egg Product v. United States of America · United States of America v. Antikamnia Chemical Company
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It [the syrup] was originally called ‘Coca-Cola Syrup and Extract’. It is produced by melting sugar, — the analysis showing that 52.64 per cent, of the product is sugar and 42.63 per cent, is water. Into the syrup thus formed by boiling the sugar, there are introduced coloring, flavoring, and other ingredients, in order to give the syrup a distinctive character. The caffeine, as has been said, is introduced in the second or third ‘melting.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress, we think, referred to ingredients artificially introduced; these it described as ‘added.’ The addition might be made to a natural food product or to a compound ... we think that it was the intention of Congress that the artificial introduction of ingredients of a poisonous or deleterious character which might render the article injurious to health should cause the prohibition of the statute to attach.”
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.