Ivy Broadcasting Co. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.2d 486 · 1968
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson (1986), Illinois v. City of Milwaukee (1972)
87 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“questions concerning the duties, charges and liabilities of telegraph or telephone companies with respect to an interstate communications service are to be governed solely by federal law and that the states are precluded from acting in this area ... It seems reasonable that the congressional purpose of uniformity and equality of rates should be taken to imply uniformity and equality of service ...”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he federal statutory scheme for the regulation of interstate communications service indicates a congressional policy requiring that the duties and liabilities under contracts for the provision of such service be determined according to federal rules in order to assure uniformity of rates and service.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“govern[s] some disputed aspect' of the claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.