National Broadcasting Company Inc v. Satellite Broadcast Networks Inc Nbc Television Affiliates’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 1467 · 1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2015
5 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 17 U.S.C. § 111 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 119 · 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 47 U.S.C. § 522 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Rust v. Sullivan · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a facility, located in any State, Territory, trust Territory, or Possession, that ... receives signals transmitted or programs broadcast by one or more television broadcast stations ... and makes secondary transmissions .of such signals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Secondary transmissions to the public by a cable system of a primary transmission made by a broadcast station ... shall be subject to compulsory licensing upon compliance with [procedural requirements and payment of mandatory royalties] where the carriage of the signals comprising the secondary transmission is permissible under the rules, regulations or authorizations of the Federal Communications Commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'cable system[s]' not located in whole or in part within the boundary of the forty-eight contiguous States, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico.”
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.