Cliquot's Champagne’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 114 · 1865
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 20 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Helvering v. Mitchell (1938), United States v. Stowell (1890)
50 federal appellate · 20 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Law v. Cross
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The market value of goods is the price at which the owner of the goods, or the producer, holds them for sale; the price at which they are freely offered in the market to all the world; such prices as dealers in the goods are willing to receive, and purchasers are made to pay, when the goods are bought and sold in the ordinary course of trade.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Revenue laws are not penal laws in tlie sense that requires them to be construed with great strictness in favor of the defendant. They are rather to be regarded as remedial in their character, and intended to prevent fraud, suppress public wrong, and promote the public good. They should be so construed as to carry out the intention of the Legislature in passing them and most effectually accomplish these objects.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whatever is done by an agent in reference to the business in which he is at the time employed and within the scope of this authority is said or done by the principal, and may be proved as well in a criminal as in a civil case in all respects as if the principal were the actor.””
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.