Metropolitan Television Company v. United States of America, Federal Communications Commission, Alvarado Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor. Metropolitan Television Company v. Federal Communications Commission, Alvarado Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor’s Empirical Analysis
221 F.2d 879 · 1955
Citation profile
42 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Office of Communication v. Federal Communications Commission (1966), Folden v. United States (2004)
42 federal appellate ·
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. § 309 (Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005) · 47 U.S.C. § 402
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · Camden Radio, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A `party in interest' is one who is `aggrieved or whose interests are adversely affected'. § 402(b). Camden Radio, Inc., v. Federal Communications Commission, 94 U.S.App.D.C. 312, 220 F. 2d 191 .”
1 later decision 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.