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reasonably ancillary

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Definitions from Case Law

From 392 U.S. 157 - United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · 1968Most cited · 1,083 citing opinions

the authority which we recognize today under § 152(a) is restricted to that reasonably ancillary to the effective performance of the Commission's various responsibilities for the regulation of television broadcasting

How often courts cite the case defining “reasonably ancillary”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonably ancillary” — 1,082 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.