The Collector v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 246 · 1874
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2009 · most notably J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States (1928), Barr v. United States (1945)
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Fashnacht v. Frank
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the sovereign or pound sterling, as a coin, has only existed since the year 1817, the amount of pure gold contained in the pound sterling (estimating- the guinea at 21 shillings) has been 113.001 grains ever since the year 1717; and as the United States dollar contains 23.22 grains of pure metal, it only requires a process of simple division to show that the value of the sovereign is precisely what the second section of the act determines it to he. This intrinsic value of the pound sterling, as represented by the gold coins of England, was a matter of such public notoriety as to need no extraneous inquiry on the subject. It was the public law of the British empire during the period of our own colonial history, of which all our courts were required to take judicial notice; and its continuance to the present time is a public fact as well established as any other act of the British government.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the value of foreign coin, as expressed in the money of account of the United States, shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value, and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall bo estimated annually by the director of the mint, and proclaimed on the 1st day of January by the secretary of the treasury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Provided, that if shall be lawful for the president of the United States, to cause to be established fit and proper regulations for estimating the duties on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, in respect to which the original cost shall be exhibited in a depreciated currency, issued and circulated under authority of any foreign government.””
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.