William Belcher and Charles Belcher v. William a Linn’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 508 · 1860
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1970
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 · Marriott v. Brune · James Converse v. Benjamin Burgess · Bartlett v. Kane · 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is final and conclusive, and their appraisement, in contemplation of law, becomes, for the purpose of calculating and assessing the duties due to the United States, the true dutiable value of the importation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hilton v. Merritt
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.