15 U.S.C. § 1461
Section 1461 · Effect upon State law
This is the Sherman Antitrust Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Jones v. Rath Packing Co. (1977)
Most recently applied in Reyes v. Premier Home Funding, Inc. (June 2009)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
It is hereby declared that it is the express intent of Congress to supersede any and all laws of the States or political subdivisions thereof insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for the labeling of the net quantity of contents of the package of any consumer commodity covered by this chapter which are less stringent than or require information different from the requirements of section 1453 of this title or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.