United States v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.2d 968 · 1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2011
2 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1401 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1453 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1459 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 1644 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 231 · 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Williams v. United States · Hammer v. United States · The Schooner Hoppet and Cargo v. The United States · Hamburg-American Line v. United States · Taylor v. 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All lands separated by water touch one another in a sense beneath the water, but when the intervening water is the high seas over which neither of them has exclusive jurisdiction they are not contiguous countries though no dry land intervenes." (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Aircraft arriving from contiguous foreign territory shall be subject to the customs laws and regulations applicable to vehicles arriving from contiguous foreign territory, and where aircraft arriving from any place outside of the United States, shall be subject to the customs laws and regulations applicable to vessels so arriving.” Code of Federal Regulations of the United States, Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality, See. 116.12, Part 116, Civil Air Navigation.”
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.