United States v. New South Farm & Home Co.’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 64 · 1916
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Pearlstein (1978), United States v. Regent Office Supply Co. (1970)
56 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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 United States v. Barnow · Wilson v. United States · Harris v. Rosenberger · O'Hara v. United States
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]uffing, indeed, might not be within [the statute’s] meaning ... that is, the mere exaggeration of the qualities which the article has; but when a proposed seller goes beyond that, assigns to the article qualities it does not possess, does not simply magnify in opinion the advantages and falsely asserts their existence, he transcends the limits of “puffing” and engages in false representations and pretenses.”
4 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.