J. E. Bernard & Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “* * * They are files, or rasps, within the common meaning of the term, both in appearance and in use. To be sure, the points which are the distinguishing feature of a rasp, are created in these tools by a new technology which was unknown, or little known, in 1930. There is no evidence whatever that Congress intended to limit the term “rasp” to a tool with points made by the then method of manufacture. An improved rasp, with points made in a different manner, so as to be more efficient in certain applications, but used in the same manner as the 1930 rasp, is also a rasp for purposes of tariff classification.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Polaroid Corp. v. United States