Public Utilities Commission of Rhode Island v. Attleboro Steam & Electric Co’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 83 · 1927
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 36 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 412 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. (1944), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin (1954)
155 federal appellate · 36 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio · Sligh v. James a Kirkwood · Shafer v. Farmers Grain Co.
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 412 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by the exercise of the power vested in Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the general business of the Narragansett Company appears to be chiefly local,”
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.