Bartlett v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 263 · 1853
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Helvering v. Mitchell (1938), Helvering v. Mitchell (1938)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · Alexander Rankin v. Jesse Hoyt
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The interposition of the courts in the appraisement of importations would involve the collection of the revenue in inextricable confusion and embarrassments. Every importer might feel justified in disputing the accuracy of the judgment of the appraisers, and claim to make proof before a jury months or even years after the articles have been withdrawn from the control of the government, and when the knowledge of the transaction has faded from the memory of its officers.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The provisions for the return of the duty upon an exportation from a part of the system of regulations for importations and revenue from the earliest period of our government, and has always been understood to establish relations between the regular and honest importer and the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case the plaintiff * * * withdrew it [the appeal], * * *. After this, we think he could not dispute the exactness of the appraisement. [P. 273.]”
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.