Tower v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1976
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that the facts in the instant case present a situation considerably different from that which obtained in the Spreohels Creameries case, and do not warrant the application of the holding in that case to the case before us. It is clearly shown here that the boxes assembled from the imported merchandise are used on the farm in the harvesting of fruit crops, a function which it cannot be denied is purely agricultural. The same boxes, with the same fruit, are then used for transportation of the harvested crops to processing plants. There is no separation of use — it is a continuous use, harvesting and transporting, which we believe under the facts and law applicable to the situation characterizes the use of the importations as agricultural. * * *”
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.