Wlva, Incorporated (Wlva-Tv), Lynchburg, Virginia v. Federal Communications Commission, Roanoke Telecasting Corporation (Wrft-Tv), Intervenor’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 1286 · 1972
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission v. Federal Communications Commission (1975), Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1994)
20 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 47 U.S.C. § 309 · 47 U.S.C. § 402 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · United States v. Storer Broadcasting Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] petitioner seeking a hearing on the Carroll issue must plead specific factual data sufficient to make out a prima facie case that the economic consequences of a grant of the challenged application will lead to an overall derogation of service to the public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. National Association of Broadcasters v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, Western Union Telegraph Company, Forward Communications Corporation, Graphic Scanning Corporation, United States Satellite Broadcasting Company, Inc., Direct Broadcast Satellite Corporation, Satellite Television Corporation, Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc., Aerospace and Flight Test Coordinating Council, Manufacturers Radio Frequency Advisory Committee, Cbs, Inc., National Black Media Coalition, Association of Maximum Service Telecasters, Inc., California Public Safety Radio Association, Inc., Rca American Communications, Inc., Intervenors. National Association of Broadcasters v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Satellite Television Corporation, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc., Forward Communications Corporation, U.S. Satellite Broadcasting Co., Televisa, S.A., National Black Media Coalition, Cbs, Inc., Intervenors. County of Los Angeles v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Satellite Television Corporation, Intervenor · National Ass'n of Broadcasters v. Federal Communications Commission
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.