Campbell v. James’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““If the fact that some acts of the officers of a department performed in-pursuance of an act of Congress result in the collection or receipt, of moneys, which must necessarily be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and thereby become available for the payment of the governmental expenses, makes that department and all the officials under it persons acting under ‘the revenue laws’ of the United States within the meaning of section 043, it is hard to imagine a case against any officer of the United States which would not. he removable under that section. Officers of the judicial department. clerks and marshals, collect all fines and penalties imposed under the criminal laws of the United States. The marshals of the United States collect fees for their services from litigants, and all these moneys, whether collected for tines and penalties or fees for services performed by these officers, are required to be paid into the national treasury, and are, of course, available and used for defraying the expenses of the government under the appropriation acts of Congress. The Department of the Interior is charged with the sale of the public lands and the collection of all revenues arising from the public domain. The War and Navy Departments are authorized to sell many articles when they cease to be of further use for the purposes of these-departments. The Department of Commerce and Labor collects certain fees in naturalization cases, and all these moneys are required by law to b”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Twin Falls Canal Co. v. Foote

2. ““It is dear that the word ‘revenue,’ in all these forms of expression, means only the revenue from customs. The act does not relate to revenue from any other source. * * * Under said section the words ‘other officers of the revenue’ would never have been construed to mean a postmaster. * . * * This is the view held by the Post Office Department itself, for in the report of the Postmaster General to the President, of November 8, 1879, reference is made to this suit, and to the decision on it, by the interlocutory decree, adverse to the defendant James, and it is stated that ‘there is no provision of federal law to secure “certificates of probable cause” to United States officials, other than treasury officials, in cases of adverse judgments for acts done in their official capacity.’ This is unquestionably a correct view.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People's United States Bank v. Goodwin