Federal Trade Commission v. Motion Picture Advertising Service Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
219 federal appellate · 21 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States (1953), United States v. Philadelphia National Bank (1963)
219 federal appellate · 21 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
reviewedMotion Picture Advertising Service Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on International Salt Co. v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Nash v. United States · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society
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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be defined with particularity by the myriad of cases from the field of business.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is ... clear that the Federal Trade Commission Act was designed to supplement and bolster the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act ...--to stop in their incipiency acts and practices which, when full blown, would violate those Acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to stop in their incipiency acts and practices which, when full blown, would violate those Acts.”
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.