Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
562 U.S. 397 · 2011
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Leocal v. Ashcroft · Nken v. Holder · Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]dentical words and phrases within the same statute should normally be given the same meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Yang v. Barr“When a statute does not define a term, we typically 'give the phrase its ordinary meaning.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“corporations or other artificial entities.”
1 later decision 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.