Callahan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
285 U.S. 515 · 1932
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 (1937), Massachusetts v. United States (1948)
42 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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 Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca · Cook Co Nat Bank v. United States · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · Rodgers 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘merchandise’ means goods, wares, and chattels of every description, and includes merchandise the importation of which is prohibited.””
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.