Allen B. Dumont Laboratories, Inc. v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.2d 153 · 1950
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul (1963), United States v. Radio Corp. of America (1959)
25 federal appellate · 18 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 Hines v. Davidowitz · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Alpers
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio and all interstate and foreign transmission of energy by radio, which originates and/or is received within the United States, and to all persons engaged within the United States in such communication or such transmission of energy by radio, and to the licensing and regulating of all radio stations as hereinafter provided.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is the purpose of this chapter, among other things, to maintain the control of the United States over the channels of interstate and foreign radio transmission; and to provide for the use of such channels, but not the ownership thereof, by persons for limited periods of time, under licenses granted by Federal authority, and no such license shall be construed to create any right, beyond the terms, conditions, and periods of the license.” * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to occupy the television broadcasting field in its entirety.”
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.