Meyer v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 570 · 1875
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1974
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 United States v. Palmer · Nelson Elliott v. Samuel Swartwout · Tinkham v. . Tapscott · Meyer v. Arthur
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the act speaks of ‘ manufactures of metals,’ it obviously refers to manufactured articles in which metals form a component part. When we speak of manufactures of wood, of leather, or of iron, we refer to articles that have those substances especially for their component parts, and hot to articles in which they have lost their form entirely, and have become the chemical ingredients of new forms. The qualification which is added to the phrase ‘manufactures.of metals-’ — namely, ‘manufactures of metals- of which either of them ’ (that is, either of the metals') ‘ is the component part of chief value ’ — corroborates this view.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manufactures of metals- of which either of them”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Arnson
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.