Puerto Rico Telephone Company v. Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Puerto Rico Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.3d 1 · 1999
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 35 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Lawrence Greebel Richard Crane Brian Robinson John Ann Somers v. Ftp Software Inc (1999), Landrau-Romero v. Banco Popular De Puerto Rico (2000)
45 federal appellate · 35 district · 4 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal courts may review a state commission's actions with respect to an agreement only for compliance with the requirements of § 251 and § 252 of the Telecommunications Act, and not for compliance with state law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would be `surpassing strange' to preserve state authority in this fashion [under the 1996 Act] and then to put federal courts in the position of overruling a state agency on a pure issue of state law.”
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.