168 W. Va. 631 - Capitol Cablevision Corp. v. Hardesty’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2001
15 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. § 152 · 47 U.S.C. § 153
Relies on Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue · Hillsborough Tp Somerset County Nj v. Cromwell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the community antenna television business is in interstate commerce and is an integral part of interstate commerce (citation omitted), it constitutes the last stage of the interstate transmission of the television signals. It is one continuous interstate transmission to the viewer’s television set____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The service offered by the CATV system operator is not unlike that which the individual viewer renders himself when he erects a television antenna on the roof of his house. The purpose of the activity is not to generate new signals but to increase the ability of the viewer to receive existing signals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The constitutional requirement of equal and uniform taxation means that as to classes of property, businesses, or incomes there shall be uniformity of taxation and a tax upon all businesses of the same class, which is uniform as to that class of business, is not unconstitutional.”
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.