Studner 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the tariff sense, waste is a term which includes manufactured articles which have become useless for the original purpose for which they were made and fit only for remanufacture into something else. It also includes refuse, surplus, and useless stuff resulting from manufacture or from manufacturing processes and commercially unfit, without remanufacture, for the purposes for which the original material was suitable and from which material such refuse, surplus, or unsought residuum was derived. The latter class of waste might be appropriately designated as new waste and includes such things as tangled spun thread, coal dust, broken or spoiled castings fit only for remanufacture.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cheltenham Supply Corp. v. United States · 64 Cust. Ct. 543 - W. N. Proctor Co. v. United States

2. ““In the instant case, the print blocks were incapable of use for their original purpose and were ‘waste’ as far as their use in printing was concerned. They would have been considered ‘waste’ if another use had been found for them that involved remanufacture. The use to which they are in fact put differs substantially from their original use. ‘New waste’ is classifiable as waste even though used for a different purpose without further remanufacture. It would be illogical to hold that ‘old waste’ such as this merchandise, has been taken out of that classification, waste, merely because it can be used for another purpose without remanufacture.” 63 Cust. Ct. at 6-7 .”

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

3. “whether an old and used article no longer suitable for its original purpose and which would be considered waste if fit only for remanufacture [cases cited] must be considered something else because it can be used for another purpose without remanufacture.”

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