United States v. North American Commercial Co.’s Empirical Analysis
74 F. 145 · 1896
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1967
1 district ·
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 Cooke v. United States · Kihlberg v. United States · United States v. Bowen · United States v. Eckford · United States v. Tench Ringgold
Most-quoted passages
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“■ “ Sec. 3. That for the period of twenty years from and after the passage of this act the number of fur seals which may be killed for their skins upon the island of St. Paul is hereby limited and restricted to seventy-five thousand per annum; and the number of fur seals which may be killed'for their skins upon the island of St. George is hereby limited and restricted to twenty-five thousand per annum: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may restrict and limit the right of killing if it shall become necessary for the preservation of such seals, with such proportionate reduction of the rents reserved to the government as shall be right and proper; and if any person shall knowingly violate either of the provisions of this section, he shall, upon due conviction thereof, be punished in the same way as provided herein for a violation of the provisions of the first and second sections of this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exclusive right to engage in the business of taking fur seals on the islands of St. George and St. Paul, in the Territory of Alaska, and to. send a vessel or vessels to said islands for the skins of such seals,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be taken for their skins on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, in Alaska, and in the waters adjacent thereto, and the number to be taken on or about the islands respectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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