Homer v. The Collector’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 486 · 1863
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004 · most notably American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington (1891), Brougham v. Blanton Mfg Co (1919)
10 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But this inquiry had nothing to do with the question, and, indeed, it is-difficult to see how any such inquiry could take place except as matter of curiosity and speculation; for certainly such proof could not exist or be found in the sense of commercial usage under any of the tariff acts, as a duty has been imposed on almonds eo nomine almost immemorially, at least since the duty act of 1804, and continued in the duty acts of 1816, 1832, 1842, 1846.””
2 later decisions 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.