Federal Trade Commission v. Mandel Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
385 federal appellate · 42 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 721 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Leary v. United States (1969), United States v. Bass (1971)
385 federal appellate · 42 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedMandel Bros. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 69 (Fur Products Labeling Act)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · International Salt Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co. · Local 167 of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen Helpers of America 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 721 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fit, if possible, all parts [of a statute] into [a] harmonious whole.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a useful aid in resolving [the] ambiguity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a limiting clause ... to be applied only to the last antecedent.”
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.