Community Television of Southern Cal. v. Gottfried’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc (1984), Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
reviewedGottfried v. Federal Communications Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 307 · 47 U.S.C. § 402
Relies on National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting · McLean Trucking Co. v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. WNCN Listeners Guild
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rulemaking is generally a 'better, fairer, and more effective' method of implementing a new industrywide policy than is the uneven application of conditions in isolated license renewal proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. California Association of the Physically Handicapped, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Fox Television Stations, Inc., Ktla, Inc., National Broadcasting Co., Inc., Rko General, Inc., Community Television of Southern California, Kcop Television, Inc., Cbs, Inc., Metromedia, Inc., Intervenors. California Association of the Physically Handicapped, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Tribune Broadcasting Company, Intervenor · California v. Settle“[S]ince § 504 was patterned after Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was understood that responsibility for enforcing it, insofar as it regulated private recipients of federal funds, would lie with those agencies administering the federal financial assistance programs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Captioning' refers to any of several technologies ... that project written text onto a television image so that deaf viewers receive information that is communicated to others by the soundtrack.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. California Association of the Physically Handicapped, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Fox Television Stations, Inc., Ktla, Inc., National Broadcasting Co., Inc., Rko General, Inc., Community Television of Southern California, Kcop Television, Inc., Cbs, Inc., Metromedia, Inc., Intervenors. California Association of the Physically Handicapped, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Tribune Broadcasting Company, Intervenor · California Ass'n of the Physically Handicapped 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.