Puerto Rico Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, and United States of America, Comtronics, Inc., Intervenor’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.2d 694 · 1977
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985), Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Communications Commission (1986)
24 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Udall v. Tallman · National League of Cities v. Usery · Goss v. Board of Education · Port of Boston Marine Terminal Assn. v. Rederiaktiebolaget Transatlantic
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carrier engaged in interstate . . . communication solely through physical connection with the facilities of another carrier not directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with such carrier”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even more anomalous, in light of FCC's broad [statutory] mandate ... that Sec. 152(b) ousts federal jurisdiction over all facilities that are also used for intrastate telephone service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for or in connection with ... telephone exchange service ... even though a portion of such exchange service constitutes interstate or foreign communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.