7 U.S.C. § 1551
Section 1551 · Short title
This is the Federal Seed Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Martin v. Joseph Harris Co. (1985)
Most recently applied in 949 So. 2d 916 - Harris Moran Seed Co., Inc. v. Phillips (June 2006)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This chapter may be cited as the “Federal Seed Act.”
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Effective Date
See section 1610 of this title.
Short Title of 1983 Amendment
Pub. L. 97–439, §1, Jan. 8, 1983, 96 Stat. 2287, provided that: “This Act [amending sections 1561, 1571, 1581, 1582, 1585, and 1586 of this title and repealing sections 1583 and 1584 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982’.”