Melcher v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 1143 · 1998
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Consumer Electronics Ass'n v. Federal Communications Commission (2003), Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Securities and Exchange Commission (2005)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 254 · 47 U.S.C. § 309 (Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005) · 47 U.S.C. § 533 · 47 U.S.C. § 543 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Federal Communications Commission v. National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting · Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. · National Ass'n of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. Federal Communications Commission · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our review of the FCC's exercise of its predictive judgment is particularly deferential”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the FCC must make judgments about future market behavior with respect to a brand-new technology, certainty is impossible”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When ... an agency is obliged to make policy judgments where no factual certainties exist ... we require only that the agency so state and go on to identify the considerations it found persuasive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.