United States v. M H Pulaski Company’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “That a discount of 5 per centum on all duties imposed by this Act shall be -allowed on such goods, wares, and merchandise as shall be imported in vessels •admitted to registration under the laws of the United States: Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of any treaty concluded between the .United States and any foreign nation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. George E. Warren Corp. v. United States

2. “* * * If the statute bore the meaning attributed to it below, it granted the-discount to the nations having treaties of reciprocity, even if those treaties were only contracts. As in our opinion the subsection means what it says, it grants-the discount to none.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. George E. Warren Corp. v. United States

3. “There is a strong presumption that the literal meaning is the true one, especially as against a construction that is not interpretation, but perversion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. La Merced