American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 401 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Hicks v. Quaker Oats Co. (1981)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United States · Gerry v. United States · Electrical Fittings Corp. v. Thomas
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“selectively ... excise from the order's foundation certain portions it finds objectionable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If a judgment of a court of first instance [or of an administrative tribunal] is based on determinations of two issues, either of which standing independently would be sufficient to support the result, the judgment [or administrative adjudication] is not conclusive with respect to either issue standing alone.” 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Sections 402(a) and 2342 [do not] authorize us to embark on architectural revisions of this sort.”
1 later decision 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.