Sluis v. Nudelman’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
2 district · 4 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
Relies on Swain Nelson & Sons Co. v. Department of Finance · Acme Printing Ink Co. v. Nudelman
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.
“To say that the purchaser of seed, by sowing it in the soil, thereby produces tangible personal property for resale overlooks the fact the original seed has become useless and has lost its identity as seed. By the same reasoning, fertilizer placed upon the soil could be said to be used for resale because, by the chemistry of nature, it increased the crop.”
1 later decision 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.