Sullivan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * However, if the substitution for a nonelectrical feature for the electrical one can be 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 purposes for which it was intended, the electrical feature is nonessential and paragraph 353 would not apply. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 Cust. Ct. 298 - J. E. Bernard & Co. v. United States

2. “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, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of metal, and not specially provided for: Batteries * * * ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ Other * * *_13%% ad val.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keer, Maurer Co. v. United States

3. “* * * The electrical feature must be an essential feature, without which the article will not function, normally, for the purposes intended, * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Keer, Maurer Co. v. United States