Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

broadcasters

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 309 U.S. 470 - Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · 1940Most cited · 1,210 citing opinions

the Act recognizes that broadcasters are not common carriers and are not to be dealt with as such. Thus the Act recognizes that the field of broadcasting is one of free competition.

How often courts cite the case defining “broadcasters”

194019601980200020202030268

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “broadcasters” — 1,210 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.