Murphy v. Arnson’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 131 · 1877
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1972 · most notably Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n v. United States (1908), United States v. Steinberg Bros. (1959)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Beer may well be said to be manufactured from malt and other ingredients, whiskey from corn, or cider from apples. The fact that the identity of the original article or articles is lost, and that a new form of a new character is assumed, is not material in determining whether, within the popular idea, as embodied in the customs acts, the article in question is a manufacture from its original elements.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““.And if any non-enumcrated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on such non-emimerated article, the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying tlie highest duty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. “ And on all articles manufactured from two or more materials the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which any of its component parts may be chargeable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arthur v. Fox
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.