Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co.’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 149 · 1942
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. (1955), Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute (1948)
126 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRaladam Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. Winsted Hosiery Co. · Manson v. Williams
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the reasons for refusing to enforce the Commission’s order are grounded upon the inadequacy of the findings and proof, as revealed in the particular record then before this Court. Hence, these reasons are not controlling in this case, arising, as it does, out of different proceedings and presenting different facts and a different record for our consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““One of the objects of the Act creat■ing the Federal Trade Commission was to1 prevent potential injury by stopping unfair methods of competition in their incipiency. * * * ””
1 later decision 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.