Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 30 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 500 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), Padilla v. Kentucky (2010)
223 federal appellate · 30 district · 30 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
reviewedIowa Utilities Board v. Federal Communications Commission (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 16 U.S.C. § 824D (§ 205 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 47 U.S.C. § 251 · 47 U.S.C. § 252 · 47 U.S.C. § 253 · 47 U.S.C. § 271 · 49 U.S.C. § 10701 · 49 U.S.C. § 1302
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases
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 500 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“features, functions, and capabilities that are provided by means of such facility or equipment, including subscriber numbers, databases, signaling systems, and information sufficient for billing and collection or used in the transmission, routing, or other provision of a telecommunications service.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“based on the use of the most efficient telecommunications technology currently available and the lowest cost network configuration, given the existing location of the incumbent LEC's wire centers.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“based on the cost (determined without reference to a rate-of-return or other rate-based proceeding) of providing the ... network elements, which may include a reasonable profit; and (2) nondiscriminatory.” 47 U.S.C. § 252 (d)(1)(A). See also § 251(c)(3) (explaining that prices for UNE's must be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory). Congress set forth this novel ratesetting mandate — -which stood in stark contrast to the familiar public-utility model of regulating rates- — in order”
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.