Federal Radio Commission v. Nelson Bros. Bond & Mortgage Co.’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 266 · 1933
Citation profile
293 federal appellate · 36 district · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 723 later decisions (104 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same (1947), Mistretta v. United States (1989)
293 federal appellate · 36 district · 134 state decisions — followed in 29 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
reviewedNelson Bros. Bond & Mortgage v. Federal Radio Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Sproles v. Binford
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 723 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dealing with activities admittedly within its regulatory power, the Congress established the commission as its instrumentality to provide continuous and expert supervision and to exercise the administrative judgment essential in applying legislative standards to a host of instances. These standards the Congress prescribed. The powers of the commission were defined, and definition is limitation. Whether the commission applies the legislative standards validly set up, whether it acts within the authority conferred or goes beyond it, whether its proceedings satisfy the pertinent demands of due process, whether, in short, there is compliance with, the legal requirements which fix the province of the commission and govern its actions, are appropriate questions for judicial decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public convenience, interest, or necessity”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Complaint is also made that the commission did not adopt the recommendations of its examiner. But the commission had the responsibility of decision and was not only at liberty but was required to reach its own conclusions upon the evidence.”
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.