Western Union International, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 1012 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably National Ass'n of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. Federal Communications Commission (1984), RCA Global Communications, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1985)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Home Box Office, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Hoffa v. United States · Bell Telephone Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Shell Oil Co. v. State Board of Equalization of California
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the FCC demonstrated a basis for its determination of likeness, the burden shifted to the [party defending the disparity in treatment] to disprove the discrimination in their favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“good cause to suspect that there was little justification for [a] large difference in the rates charged[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“embodies an absolute obligation to prevent such discrimination in the public interest regardless of the needs of particular users or other policy considerations.”
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.