Movius v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 144 · 1877
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1941 · most notably American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington (1891), Arthur v. Lahey (1877)
6 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
Relies on Reiche v. Smythe
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It 4s a general rule, in the construction of revenue statutes, that specific provisions for duties on a particular article are not repealed or affected by the general words of a subsequent statute, although the language is sufficiently broad to cover the article first mentioned. — Movius v. Arthur ( 95 U. S. 146 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it being the intent of this section to-reduce the du-. ties ten per cent on all leather not herein otherwise provided for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arthur v. Lahey“skins dressed and finished, of all kinds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ferguson v. Arthur
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.