Bartner v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Marshall v. Miller (1981), Ivey, Barnum & O'Mara v. Indian Harbor Properties, Inc. (1983)
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 19 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 57B (Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Filmon v. Florida · Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · Cities Service Co. v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Society · H. J. Lewis Oyster Co. 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Court action. Any person who purchases or leases goods, services or property, real or personal, primarily for personal, family or household purposes and thereby suffers any loss of money or property, real or personal, as a result of the use or employment by another person of [an unfair trade practice] may bring an action ... for restitution and for such other equitable relief, including an injunction, as the court may deem to be necessary and proper.... 2. Fees and costs. If the court finds, in any action commenced under this section that there has been a violation of section 207, the petitioner shall ... be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are declared unlawful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [has made] a false representation (2) of a material fact (3) with knowledge of its falsity or in reckless disregard of whether it is true or false (4) for the purpose of inducing another to act or to refrain from acting in reliance upon it, and (5) the plaintiff justifiably relies upon the representation as true and acts upon it to his damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.