Barr v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 83 · 1945
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 19 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 575 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980)
94 federal appellate · 19 district · 30 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.
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 19 U.S.C. § 1303 · 19 U.S.C. § 1351 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1402 · 19 U.S.C. § 1624 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. · Boske v. Comingore · United States v. George S. Bush & Co. · Browder 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 575 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if Congress has made a choice of language which fairly brings a given situation within a statute, it is unimportant that the particular application may not have been contemplated by the legislators. Puerto Rico v. Shell Co., 302 U.S. 253 , 257 [ 58 S.Ct. 167 , 82 L.Ed. 235 ;] Browder v. United States, 312 U.S. 335 , 339 [ 61 S.Ct. 599 , 85 L.Ed. 862 ,] and cases cited.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the search which has been made for a measure of the true dollar value of imported merchandise for customs purpose”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The exercise of the Bank’s discretionary power under § 522 (c) is in the category of administrative or executive action which this Court held non-reviewable in Cramer v. Arthur, supra, [ 102 U. S. 612 ] and in Hadden v. Merritt, 115 U. S. 25, 27-28 . And see United States v. Bush & Co., 310 U. S. 371, 380 . But the function of the Secretary in this regard is purely ministerial * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.