Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 151 · 1934
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 10 district · 259 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 560 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. (1944), Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. (1942)
179 federal appellate · 10 district · 259 state decisions — followed in 37 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 State of Missouri Southwestern Bell Telephone Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri · United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. · Los Angeles Gas Electric Corporation v. Railroad Commission of California · City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water 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 560 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Annual depreciation is the loss which takes place in a year. In determining reasonable rates for supplying public service, it is proper to include in the operating expenses, that is, in the cost of producing the service, an allowance for consumption of capital in order to maintain the integority of the investment in the service rendered.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Depreciation,' as applied to depreciable telephone plant, means the loss in service value not restored by current maintenance, incurred in connection with the consumption or prospective retirement of telephone plant in the course of service from causes which are known to be in current operation, against which the company is not protected by insurance, and the effect of which can be forecast with a reasonable approach to accuracy. Among the causes to be given consideration *Page 334 are wear and tear, decay, action of the elements, inadequacy, obsolescence, changes in the art, changes in demand and requirements of public authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The financial history of the Illinois Company repels the suggestion that during all these years it was suffering from confiscatory rates. 33”
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.