Comsat Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 223 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2020
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Heckler v. Chaney · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. National Mediation Board
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merges consideration of the legality of the [agency]'s action with consideration of th[e] court's jurisdiction in cases in which the challenge to the [agency]'s action raises the question of the [agency]'s authority to enact a particular amendment. Where, as here, we find that the [agency] has acted outside the scope of its statutory mandate, we also find that we have jurisdiction to review the [agency]'s action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“rulemaking proceedings or changes in law,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to challenges brought after the time limit). Because the exceptions are different, we address the jurisdictional issue separately for each substantive challenge. Space Station Fees for Comsat 4 Comsat is a private corporation formed pursuant to the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. See 47 U.S.C. 701 et seq. At Comsat's creation Congress designated it the United States's sole representative and signatory to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.