Acrow, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1973
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 Hopes Windows, Inc. v. United States · Protest 942682-G of De Pompei
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the Morris hoist blocks, used in lifting objects, were held to be machines in T.D. 41196, and since jacks, being the well-known mechanism used as accessories to automobiles in lifting them for an exchange of tires and like purposes, were held to be machines in Abstract 48549, and both of these decisions were called to the attention of Congress prior to the passage of paragraph 372 of the Tariff Act of 1930, we see no escape from the conclusion that the involved jacks or building shores are machines. The involved building shores or jacks are something more than a “crowbar,” or a “pair of pliers.” They have some movable parts and do some of the things pointed out in the Simon, Buhler case. They are mechanical contrivances which utilize and apply force for the transmission of motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * A wall could be pushed or could be brought back by turning the handle of the shore or jack. The forms that were moved on one job were 30 feet high and extremely heavy. When concrete is poured into the form, terrific pressure is exerted, requiring another adjustment. When the involved shore is used, this situation is taken care of by jack action in the shore.”
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.