Acker v. Egypt’s Empirical Analysis
25 F. 320 · 1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1938
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Railroad Company v. Lockwood · Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G · Express Company v. Caldwell · The Hattie M. Bain · The Hadji
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie goods to be taken from along-side by the consignees, at Jersey City, Brooklyn, or New York, immediately the vessel is ready to discharge, ;or oth eirwise they will be discharged into lighters or landed by the master, and deposited at the expense of the consignee, and at his risk of fire, loss, or injuiy on the dock or wharf, or in the warehouse provided for that purpose; or'sent to the public store, as the collector for the district shall direct; and when deposited in the warehouse, no expense of storage to be charged to the government, and the keys of the warehouse to be delivered to and kept in charge of the officer of customs, under the direction of the collector; the collector of the port being hereby authorized to grant a general order for discharge immediately after entry of the ship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.