Ohio Utilities Co. v. Public Utilities Commission’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 359 · 1925
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 44 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1998 · most notably Grubb v. Public Utilities Commission (1930), Los Angeles Gas Electric Corporation v. Railroad Commission of California (1933)
6 federal appellate · 44 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · State of Missouri Southwestern Bell Telephone Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri · Ohio Valley Water Co. v. Ben Avon Borough · 108 Ohio St. 143 - Ohio Utilities Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reproduction value, however, is not a matter of outlay, but of estimate, and . . . proof of actual expenditures originally made, while it would be helpful, is not indispensable.”
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.