Southern Union Co. v. Missouri Public Service Commission’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 503 · 2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2020
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Edgar v. Mite Corp. · Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation v. New York State Liquor Authority · Healy v. Beer Institute · C & a Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he regulation of utilities is one of the most important functions traditionally associated with the police powers of the States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). Here, out-of-state companies can benefit from Minn. Stat. § 216B.246 on the same terms as a Minnesota company. For the above reasons, the Court concludes that LSP has failed to demonstrate that Minn. Stat. § 216B.246 discriminates against out-of-state entities. 8 C. Pike Test LSP argues that even if Minn. Stat. § 216B.246 regulates evenhandedly, it violates the Commerce Clause under the Pike balancing test. Specifically, LSP claims that Minn. Stat. § 216B.246”
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.