Holmes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2636
Relies on John P. Herber & Co. v. United States · 29 Cust. Ct. 1 - Hughes Fawcett, Inc. v. United States · Pitman Publishing Corp. v. United States · Protest 878024-G of Pacific Molasses Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of whether an article is provided for in paragraph 363 of the Tariff Act of 1930, or as modified by subsequent trade agreement, has been stated to be that “The electrical feature must be an essential feature, without which the article will not function, normally, for the purposes intended.” United States v. Dryden Rubber Co., 22 C.C.P.A. (Customs) 51, T.D. 47050. If an article has been designed to be operated by electrical power, and could not normally otherwise function, it is, of course, an article with an essential electrical feature, within the scope of said paragraph 353. If the substitution of a nonelectrical feature for the electrical one can he made without modification in whole or in part of the article designed to be used therewith, and after the substitution has been effected, the article will function normally for the purpose for which it was intended, the electrical feature is nonessential, and paragraph 353, supra, would not apply. Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. v. United States, 22 C.C.P.A. (Customs) 96, T.D. 47082.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Articles suitable for' producing, rectifying, modifying, controlling, or distributing electrical energy, and articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device, such as electric motors, fans, locomotives, portable tools, furnaces, heaters, ovens, ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, and signs; all the foregoing (not including electrical wiring apparatus, instruments, and devices), finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of metal, and not specially provided for: * * * fans; blowers; * * *_17%% ad val.”
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.