manufacture
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 281 U.S. 389 - Danovitz v. United States · 1930Most cited · 78 citing opinions
The word may be used in a looser way to express the whole process by which an article is made ready for sale on the open market.
How the Supreme Court has restated “manufacture”
Each Supreme Court definition of “manufacture,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “manufacture”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “manufacture” — 306 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1849–1930
- ORIGINAL
Going to more technical definitions and to first principles, such a process to make the shoe is making an article by the hand, which was once the literal meaning of the word manufacture, or manu factum, and in the more modern idea attached to the word, it is making an article, either by hand or machinery, into a new form, capable of being used, and designed to be used, in ordinary life.
tariff law
Manufacture implies a change, but every change is not manufacture, and yet every change in an article is the result of treatment, labor, and manipulation. But something more is necessary... There must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge, 'having a distinctive name, character, or use.