Wisconsin-Michigain Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 472 · 1952
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably United States v. Public Utilities Commission (1953), Transmission Access Policy Study Group v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2000)
20 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 791A (§ 321 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission · Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the essential fact in this respect is that, in this coordinated operation, electric energy is transmitted from Michigan to Wisconsin and from Wisconsin to Michigan in appreciable amounts by the power company and by it commingled with energy generated in the two respective districts and then delivered to the customers here involved.”
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.