Coastal Bend Television Co. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 686 · 1956
Citation profile
60 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Kessler v. Federal Communications Commission (1963), National Ass'n of Broadcasters v. Federal Communications Commission (1984)
60 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. § 303 (Local Community Radio Act of 2010)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · United States v. Storer Broadcasting Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. WJR, Goodwill Station, Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * was based on its finding that the VHF stations would bring additional television service to a significant number of people. True, there would be a loss to the public if VHF competition should destroy existing UHF stations before the current rule-making proceeding decides the ultimate fate of UHF television. But whether one factor should outweigh the other is precisely the sort of question which Congress * * * wished to commit to the discretion of an expert administrative agency, not the courts. It is for the Commission, not the courts, to pass on the wisdom of the channel allocation scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is for the Commission, not the courts, to pass on the wisdom of the channel allocation scheme,”
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.