Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Wanamaker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably State Board of Equalization v. Cheyenne Newspapers, Inc. (1980), Concord Publishing House, Inc. v. Director of Revenue (1996)
33 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Utah Power & Light Co. v. Pfost · Mendoza Fur Dyeing Works, Inc. v. Taylor · People Ex Rel. Delta Kappa Epsilon Society of Hamilton College v. Lawler
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is not practical to divide a generating plant into `distinct' stages. It was not built that way, and it does not operate that way. The words `directly and exclusively' should not be construed to require the division into theoretically distinct stages of what is in fact continuous and indivisible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.