Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 45 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 442 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
138 federal appellate · 45 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedAlliance for Community Media v. Federal Communications Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 532
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Pierson v. Ray · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien
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 442 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'They provide groups and individuals who generally have not had access to the electronic media with the opportunity to become sources of information in the electronic marketplace of ideas.' " Id. at 791-92 , 116 S.Ct. 2374 (quoting H.R. Rep. No. 98-934, at 30 (1984) ). He further explained, "It is important to understand that public access channels are public fora created by local or state governments in the cable franchise,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to address extraordinary problems, where its regulations are appropriately tailored to resolve those problems without imposing an unnecessarily great restriction on speech”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]t is not at all clear that the public forum doctrine should be imported wholesale into the area of common carriage regulation''). 17 The Court observes that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.