imitation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 340 U.S. 593 - 62 Cases More or Less Each Containing Six Jars of Jam v. United States · 1951Most cited · 492 citing opinions
food labeling
In that section Congress did not give an esoteric meaning to 'imitation.' It left it to the understanding of ordinary English speech. And it directed that a product should be deemed 'misbranded' if it imitated another food 'unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word 'imitation' and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
How often courts cite the case defining “imitation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “imitation” — 489 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.