Columbus Gas & Fuel Co. v. Public Utilities Commission’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 398 · 1934
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. (1944), Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. (1942)
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Burnet v. Harmel · Los Angeles Gas Electric Corporation v. Railroad Commission of California · City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co. · Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. · Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Certain gas leases purchased by the utility] ought not in fairness to be capitalized until present or imminent need for use as sources of supply shall have brought them into the base upon which profits must be earned. To capitalize them sooner is to build the rate structure of the business upon assets held in idleness to abide the uses of the future.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In so far as a reasonable rate is something other or higher than one not strictly confiscatory (Banton v. Belt Line Ry. Corp., 268 U. S. 413, 423 ), the difference, if any, is determined with finality by the appointed officers of the state.””
2 later decisions 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.