United States v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 116 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Ubiles (2000), Bradley v. United States (2002)
15 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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 19 U.S.C. § 1401 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1467 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 482 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 48 U.S.C. § 1561
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Boyd v. United States · Horton v. California · Harris 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Shortly after the United States acquired the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917, Congress exercised that authority to create a border between the Virgin Islands and the rest of the United States for customs purposes____Consistent with the approach of imposing duty on goods leaving the Virgin Islands for the mainland, an approach which remains in place today, the Tariff Act of 1930 specifies that the United States customs territory excludes the Virgin Islands.... Thus, since the acquisition of the Virgin Islands, Congress has consistently asserted its authority to impose a border between the Virgin Islands and the rest of the United States for customs purposes and has authorized customs officials to search vessels and goods passing between the Virgin Islands and the rest of the country.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to be little different from its interest in such searches at its international borders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Consistent with the approach of imposing duty on goods leaving the Virgin Islands for the mainland, an approach which remains in place today, the Tariff Act of 1930 specifies that the United States customs territory excludes the Virgin Islands. For purposes of that general tariff statute, “[t]he term ‘United States’ includes all Territories and possessions of the United States except the Virgin Islands.... ” 19 U.S.C. § 1401 (h).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.