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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 358 U.S. 153 - Flemming v. Florida Citrus Exchange · 1958Most cited · 109 citing opinions

Congress may have intended 'harmless' in a relative sense, but we think it was in relation to such laboratory tests as the ones the Secretary performed that Congress was speaking when it required that coal-tar colors be 'harmless.

How often courts cite the case defining “harmless”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “harmless” — 109 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.