Federal Trade Commission v. National Lead Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
415 federal appellate · 12 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 578 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States (1973), Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1965)
415 federal appellate · 12 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedNational Lead Company v. Federal Trade Commission, the Sherwin-Williams Company v. Federal Trade Commission, the Eagle-Picher Company v. Federal Trade Commission, Anaconda Copper Mining Company v. Federal Trade Commission (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 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 · Morgan v. United States · May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson
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 578 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those caught violating the [law] must expect some fencing in.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable relation to the unlawful practices found to exist.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t goes without saying that the requirements of a fair hearing include notice of the claims of the opposing party and an opportunity to meet them.”
3 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.