Federal Trade Commission v. Winsted Hosiery Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

289 federal appellate · 24 district · 21 state decisions

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 409 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The facts show that it is to the interest of the public that a proceeding to stop the practice be brought. * * * When misbranded goods attract customers by means of the fraud which they perpetrate, trade is diverted from the producer of truthfully marked goods.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co. · L. B. Silver Co. v. Federal Trade Commission of America

2. “[t]hat a person is a wrongdoer who so furnishes another with the means of consummating a fraud has long been a part of the law of unfair competition.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 95 Wash. 2d 841 - Allen v. American Land Research · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 10029 - Feen v. Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc., No. 406726 (Aug. 30, 2000)

3. ““As a substantial part of the public was still misled by the use of the labels which the Winstead Company employed, the public had an interest in stopping the practice as wrongful; and since the business of its trade rivals who marked their goods truthfully was necessarily affected by that practice, the Commission was justified in its conclusion that the practice constituted, an unfair method of competition.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. L. B. Silver Co. v. Federal Trade Commission of America