Federal Communications Commission v. National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
529 federal appellate · 88 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,031 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1994), City of Erie v. Pap's A. M. (2000)
529 federal appellate · 88 district · 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2101 · 28 U.S.C. § 2342 · 28 U.S.C. § 2344 · 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 152 · 47 U.S.C. § 154 · 47 U.S.C. § 301 · 47 U.S.C. § 303 (Local Community Radio Act of 2010)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
Cited together with Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Federal Communications Commission v. WNCN Listeners Guild · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States
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 1,031 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the weighing of policies under the 'public interest' standard is a task that Congress has delegated to the Commission in the first instance.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual determinations . . . of a judgmental or predictive nature . . . (for which) complete factual support in the record . . . is not possible or required . . . .”
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.