Westergaard v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
August 1967
most recently cited
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Relies on William Adams, Inc. v. United States
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“From this record we are satisfied that the so-called butter spreaders in question are knives in the ordinary meaning of that term. They have a handle and a blade, and, being used for the purpose of cutting as well as spreading butter, in our opinion they come within the eo nomine provision in said paragraph 355 for butter knives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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