United States v. Southwestern Cable Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
529 federal appellate · 52 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,083 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta (1982), Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (2000)
529 federal appellate · 52 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedSouthwestern Cable Co. v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 152 · 47 U.S.C. § 153 · 47 U.S.C. § 154 · 47 U.S.C. § 301 · 47 U.S.C. § 303 (Local Community Radio Act of 2010) · 47 U.S.C. § 307
Relies on Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · United States v. Price
Cited together with United States v. Midwest Video Corp. · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases
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 1,083 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably ancillary to the effective performance of the Commission's various responsibilities for the regulation of television broadcasting.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`all interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he views of one Congress as to the construction of a statute adopted many years before by another Congress have very little, if any, significance.”
10 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.