Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 536 · 1958
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1996
14 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Monrote v. Britton · Arkansas Natural Gas Co. v. Arkansas Railroad Commission · Ohio Oil Co. v. Thompson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjere we to undertake a review of the new [agency] order, it would hardly be possible to avoid evaluation of the decision of our sister court of appeals involving these same matters. This would be wasteful of court time and energy. It would involve the hazard of confusing or unseemly discord between two courts of appeal concerning essentially the same controversy. It would encourage the practice of “forum shopping,” which is inimical to sound judicial administration.”
3 later decisions 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.