United States v. Commodities Export Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2025
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 1514 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1555 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1557 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 28 U.S.C. § 1352 · 28 U.S.C. § 1582
Relies on Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Cunard Co v. Mellon · Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Durham County North Carolina Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company · Xerox Corporation v. County of Harris Texas · Vivitar Corporation v. The United States, and 47th Street Photo, Inc., Intervenor
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Imported merchandise is merchandise that has been brought within the limits of a port of entry from a foreign country with intention to unlade, and the word “importation” ... unless otherwise limited, means merchandise to which that condition or status has attached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the District Court cannot have jurisdiction where this Court does.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.