Basic Media, Ltd. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 830 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2015
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 155 · 47 U.S.C. § 402
Relies on United States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. · Upper Pecos Ass'n v. Peterson · Reardon v. Meacham · Brennan v. Gilles & Cotting, Inc. · Wait Radio v. Federal Communications Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an agency begins to grant exceptions in certain cases ... interests represented in other cases can ask a court to review the denial of an exception as arbitrary in light of the agency's past practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an agency decides to make an exception to the general rule, it is ... required to have stated the reasons for the exception clearly on the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny rule of general applicability will involve particular cases of hardship, for which an agency would be empowered to make individual dispensations.”
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.