Federal Trade Commission v. Affordable Media, LLC’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 1228 · 1999
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Bancroft & Masters, Inc. v. Augusta National Inc. (2000), Gotocom Inc v. The Walt Disney Company Disney Enterprises Inc Infoseek Corporation Montrose Corporation
43 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc. · United States v. Rylander · Allee v. Medrano · Kirshner v. Uniden Corp. of America
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard for finding a party in civil contempt is well settled: The moving party has the burden of showing by clear and convincing evidence that the contemnors violated a specific and definite order of the court. The burden then shifts to the contemnors to demonstrate why they were unable to comply.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the district court abused its discretion by basing its decision on an erroneous legal standard or on clearly erroneous factual findings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action for an injunction does not become moot merely because the conduct complained of was terminated, if there is a possibility of recurrence, since otherwise the defendant's [sic] would be free to return to [their] old ways.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.