Federal Radio Commission v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 464 · 1930
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 25 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 271 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. (1940), Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962)
94 federal appellate · 25 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGeneral Electric Co. v. Federal Radio Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · Ex parte Bakelite Corp. · Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · Butterworth v. United States ex rel. Hoe · Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n
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 271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 16. Any applicant for a construction permit, for a station license, or modification of an existing station license whoso application is refused by the licensing authority shall have the right to appeal from said decision to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia; “ *“ * At the earliest convenient time the court shall hear, review, and determine the appeal upon said record and evidence, and may alter or revise the decision appealed from and enter such judgment as to it may seem just. The revision by the court shall be confined to the points set forth in the reasons of appeal.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“brought into being by the judiciary article of the Constitution, is invested with judicial power only * * *. It cannot * * * participate in the exercise of functions which are essentially legislative or administrative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not a case or controversy in the sense of the judiciary article, but ... an administrative proceeding, and therefore the decision therein is not reviewable by this Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feldman v. Gardner
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.