Capital Cities Cable, Inc. v. Crisp’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
245 federal appellate · 104 district · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 986 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
245 federal appellate · 104 district · 197 state decisions — followed in 29 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
reviewedOklahoma Telecasters Ass'n v. Crisp (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 111 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Craig v. Boren
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 986 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the interests implicated by a state regulation are so closely related to the powers reserved by the Twenty-first Amendment that the regulation may prevail, notwithstanding that its requirements directly conflict with express federal policies.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“central power reserved by § 2 of the Twenty-First Amendment”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.