Jonathan Meredith v. The United States’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 486 · 1839
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1994 · most notably Rodgers v. United States (1947), Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co. (1935)
31 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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 Arnold v. The United States · The United States v. Vowell and M'Clean · Paine v. M'Intier
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““duties due upon all goods imported constitute a personal debt due to the United States from the importer, (and the consignee for this purpose is treated as the owner and importer,) independently of any lien on the goods, and any bond given for the duties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An action of debt lies in favor of the government against the importer for the duties whenever, by accident, mistake, or fraud, no duties, or short duties, have been paid.””
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.