Waring v. Mayor’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 110 · 1868
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911), Sonneborn Bros. v. Cureton (1923)
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Arnold v. The United States · The United States v. Vowell and M'Clean · Sloop Sally v. The United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In substance, there could not be much difference between a sale of the cotton and a pledge or hypothecation of it as for money advanced. In the one instance, following the usual course, for value received the importer would part with the title and possession; in the other instance, for value received, he would subject himself to the right to be deprived of both the title and possession. In either event the importer would be `so acting upon the thing imported' as to incorporate and mix it with the mass of property in the country. For a purpose beneficial to himself an equitable disposition of the property was had in the pledge created. This giving of a lien upon the property, arising out of a beneficial use thereof, served to divest it of its character as an import and subject it to the jurisdiction of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘All duties on goods, wares and merchandise imported shall be paid or secured to be paid before a permit shall be granted for landing the same;’ which shows, to a demonstration that all the salt in this case was imported before the property in the same became vested in the complainant. * * * No one pretends that any of those acts can be performed before the goods are imported.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports of Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws . . .”
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.