Carter Mountain Transmission Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 359 · 1963
Citation profile
92 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1987 · most notably United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. (1968), Home Box Office, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1977)
92 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
Relies on National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · Federal Radio Commission v. Nelson Bros. Bond & Mortgage Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. RCA Communications, Inc. · Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, . . . there is created a commission to be known as the 'Federal Communications Commission' . . .”
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.