Philip Greely Junior v. William Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 225 · 1850
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Ash Sheep Co. v. United States (1920), Helwig v. United States (1903)
1 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Jonathan Meredith v. The United States · Trigg v. Drew
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The orders as well as the opinions of the head of the treasury department, expressed in either letters or circulars, are entitled to much respect, and will always be duly weighed by this court; but it is the laws which are to govern, rather than their opinions of them; and importers, in cases of doubt, are entitled to have their rights 'settled by the judicial exposition of those laws, rather than by the views of the department.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Besides this, it would be unreasonable to overturn the invoices and oaths of importers, unless by a personal inspection and examination; * * *”
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.