United Gas Improvement Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis

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24 federal appellate ·

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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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Thus, if our present staff were immediately tripled, and if all new employees would be as competent as those we now have, we would not reach a current status in our independent producer rate work until 2043 A.D. — eighty-two and one-half years from now. Of course, we could expect to improve our techniques and thus shorten the time required to process these cases. If we increased our efficiency one thousand percent, we would achieve current status in 1968 — eight and two-tenths years from now. * F.P.C. at-. The Commission, with whatever help it can marshal from Congress, perseveres in its determination to make some headway. Justifiably pointing to some improvement the Commission’s outlook is very guarded. The Commission’s first quarterly report (Release No. 11,991; G-6559) of May 1962 reflects that “ * * * the Commission had made a small reduction in its backlog of independent producer gas certificate cases during the year * * reducing them from 3,122 to 3,026. But in the 3,026 producer certificate cases pending as of March 31, 1962, a total of 2,096 have been granted temporaries. Headway is being made. In the first quarter of calendar year 1962, a total of 606 certificate cases were disposed of in contrast to 217 in the previous quarter and 301 in the same quarter of 1961. However, the backlog will be a long time fixture for against 606 dispositions, there were 423 new filings. At today’s pace the dispositions exceed new filings on an annual basis by a net of some 720 cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunt v. Federal Power Commission

2. “only justification for giving the Commission the duty to regulate prices was the determination by Congress that the producers have a supply that is so restricted in relation to demand that they have the economic power to bargain for prices that will be injurious to the public.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Public Service Commission for the State of New York v. Federal Power Commission, Continental Oil Company, Intervenors. Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Power Commission, Phillips Petroleum Company, Intervenors. Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Power Commission, Mobil Oil Corporation, Intervenor