National Ass'n for Better Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 665 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2014
10 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. § 153 · 47 U.S.C. § 301 · 47 U.S.C. § 303 (Local Community Radio Act of 2010) · 47 U.S.C. § 309 (Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005) · 47 U.S.C. § 310 · 47 U.S.C. § 315 · 47 U.S.C. § 317 · 47 U.S.C. § 325
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Rodriguez v. New York · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Further review of the recorded debate and Senator Dill’s involvement in it makes it plain that the Senators did not purport to be using the term “broadcasting” in any technical sense.... It must be presumed that the Senators, like most of the rest of us, at times use “broadcasting” not in its statutorily defined sense, as [specifically defined in the Act], but as if it were synonymous with “transmission.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the second prong of the Chevron inquiry, whether an agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statutory provision is reasonable, is also not devoid of content.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Commission [has] exhibited some inconsistency in its treatment of various forms of subscription television service as being or not being `broadcasting.'”
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.