Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 266 · 1956
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Carter v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1966), North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Communications Commission (1977)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 203 · 47 U.S.C. § 402
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To say that a telephone subscriber may produce the result in question by cupping his hand and speaking into it, but may not do so by using a device which leaves his hand free to write or do whatever else he wishes, is neither just nor reasonable. 238 F.2d at 269 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.”
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.