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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

Section 406(a), which provides for the system of tolerances, constitutes by its terms a definition of the term 'unsafe,' which appears in § 402(a)(2), a prohibition of foods which bear or contain 'any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe within the meaning of section 406.

How often courts cite the case defining “unsafe”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “unsafe” — 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.