The Mead Corporation v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 1342 · 2002
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Len-Ron Manufacturing Co. v. United States (2003), Warner-Lambert Company v. United States (2005)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · United States v. Mead Corp. · American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Browner · Simod America Corp. v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“degree of deference commensurate with its power to persuade, this court also recognizes its independent responsibility to decide the legal issue regarding the proper meaning and scope of the HTSUS terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“our review of the classification of the goods collapses into a determination of the proper meaning and scope of the HTSUS terms that, as a matter of statutory construction, is a question of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘bound,’ when used with reference to books as in subheading 4820.10.20, means permanently secured or fastened.” Mead Corp. II, 283 F.3d at 1349 . Customs appropriately concluded that the”
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.