Federal Trade Commission v. Amy Travel Service, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 564 · 1989
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 19 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably New Burnham Prairie Homes, Inc. v. Village of Burnham (1990), Federal Trade Commission v. Affordable Media, LLC (1999)
76 federal appellate · 19 district · 12 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. § 53 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hamling v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Diamond v. Charles
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Authority to control the company can be evidenced by active involvement in business affairs and the making of corporate policy, including assuming the duties of a corporate officer.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual knowledge of material misrepresentations, reckless indifference to the truth or falsity of such misrepresentations, or an awareness of a high probability of fraud along with an intentional avoidance of the truth.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he statutory grant [in § 13(b)] of authority to the district court to issue permanent injunctions includes the power to order any ancillary equitable relief necessary to effectuate the exercise of the granted powers.”
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.