Federal Trade Commission v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 781 · 1980
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Panthers v. Schweiker (1980), Linde Thomson Langworthy Kohn & Van Dyke, P.C. v. Resolution Trust Corp. (1993)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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. Morton Salt Co. · Donaldson v. United States · Oklahoma Press Pub Co v. Walling US News Printing Co · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · American Air Filter Co. v. Federal Trade 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Except in extraordinary circumstances ..., discovery is improper in a summary subpoena enforcement proceeding.' " FTC v. Carter, 636 F.2d 781 , 789 (D.C.Cir.1980) (quoting United States v. Exxon, 628 F.2d 70 , 77 n. 7 (D.C.Cir.1980)). Such requests "are not looked upon favorably ...; nor are appellate courts inclined to reverse the denial of discovery by a district judge for anything but an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the validity of Commission subpoenas is to be measured against the purposes stated in the resolution, and not by reference to extraneous evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statutes themselves alert the parties to the purposes of the investigation....”
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.