deceptive act or practice
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 374 - Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · 1965Most cited · 831 citing opinions
undisclosed simulation
It is a deceptive trade practice 'to represent falsely that a televised test, experiment, or demonstration provides a viewer with visual proof of a product claim, regardless of whether the product claim is itself true.
How often courts cite the case defining “deceptive act or practice”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “deceptive act or practice” — 825 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.