Sprint Spectrum Lp Pcs v. Willoth’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 630 · 1999
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Apt Pittsburgh Limited Partnership v. Penn Township Butler County Of Pennsylvania (1999), Cellular Telephone Company v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Borough of Ho-ho-kus New York (1999)
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 8 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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Ingraham v. Wright · Hudson v. McMillian · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“structure, placement or cumulative impact”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the holes in coverage are very limited in number or size (such as the interiors of buildings in a sparsely populated rural area, or confined to a limited number of houses or spots as the area covered by buildings increases) the lack of coverage likely will be de minimis so that denying applications to construct towers necessary to fill these holes will not amount to a prohibition of service.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'provid[ing] for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services ... by opening all telecommunications markets to competition ...'”
4 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.