Preferred Communications, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1327 · 1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 541 · 47 U.S.C. § 555
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Brown v. Board of Education · Memphis Community School District v. Stachura · Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since there are so many ways we might well avoid having to confront these difficult constitutional issues, it would be precipitous of us to try to reach them at this time. Were we to try, we would have to “decide the legal questions posed by the parties without a more thoroughly developed record ...,” something the Supreme Court refused to do when reviewing our last opinion. If we failed to follow the Court's example, “we would not escape the charge of rendering advisory opinions poorly disguised as sweeping dicta.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have built and operated a profitable cable franchise . . . if it had only been given the chance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ferrin Cole
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.