Federal Trade Commission v. Verity International, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.3d 48 · 2006
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Courbat v. Dahana Ranch, Inc. (2006), Federal Trade Commission v. Bronson Partners, LLC (2011)
27 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 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
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Shillitani v. United States · Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson · National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. v. Brand X Internet Services
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that its calculations reasonably approximated the amount of the defendants’] unjust gains”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he reasonableness of an approximation varies with the degree of precision possible. But here, the district court required no precision in the FTC's approximation even though precision could be had. The FTC's investigatory power gives it the capacity to estimate with some degree of precision how many [consumers were exposed to deception].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in many cases in which the FTC seeks restitution, the defendant’s gain will be equal to the consumer’s loss,” id. (quoting Verity, 443 F.3d at 68 ), the Court emphasized that, given a set of unique facts,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.