The United States v. Vowell and M'Clean’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 368 · 1809
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Brown v. Maryland (1827)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Auld v. Norwood
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * duties did not accrue in the fiscal sense of the term, until the vessel arrived at the port of entry. * * * It is understood that in case of an increase of duty, the United States have always demanded and received the additional duty if the goods have not arrived at the port of entry before the time fixed for the commencement of such additional duty, although the vessel may have arrived within the collection district before that time. The same rule of construction is to be observed when there is a diminution of duty. [Italics quoted.]”
3 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.