Arthur v. Stephant’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 125 · 1877
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004
2 federal appellate ·
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 · Movius 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Should it be admitted, therefore, that chocolate is composed in part of the same substances that enter into the composition of ordinary confectionery, it must, nevertheless, stand upon the customs list as the distinct article so often described in the acts of Congress by its specific name. * * * “Contemporaneously and side by side, all the way down, the statutes provide for different rates of duty on the varieties of sugar and on 'confectionery, as well as on chocolate. Confectionery and chocolate are uniformly recognized as being different articles for the purpose of duties. * * * “It is quite evident that Congress has at all times intended to preserve the distinction between these articles, and that the circuit judge decided correctly when he held that chocolate, although in the form and of the character, described was not dutiable as ‘confectionery’ under the aet of 1864.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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