James Knight James West and Robert Sargeant v. Augustus Schell’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 526 · 1860
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1959
2 federal appellate ·
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.
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.
““It is impossible to hold that molasses barrels manufactured here, and exported to a foreign port, and there filled with molasses, whether it be the ordinary article, or that denominated ‘concentrated,’ and then reimported with their contents to this country, were brought back in the same condition as when exported, within the true intent and meaning of the acts of congress. Contrary to the views of the plaintiffs, we think the words ‘the same condition’ mean, not only that the identity of the article exported is preserved, but that its utility for its original purposes is unchanged. On this point we adopt the view taken by the defendant, because it appears to bo more consonant with the language of the provision under consideration, and with the obvious intent of congress in passing it.””
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.