Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America v. Slattery’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 300 · 1937
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 24 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 326 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2009 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Moore v. City of East Cleveland (1977)
131 federal appellate · 24 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Simpson v. Shepard · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Matthews v. Rodgers · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 326 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule that a suitor must exhaust his administrative remedies before seeking the extraordinary relief of a court of equity” in the context of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We can find in the commerce clause and the Fourteenth Amendment no basis for saying that any person is immune from giving information appropriate to a legislative or judicial inquiry. A foreign corporation engaged exclusively in interstate commerce within the state is amenable to process there as are citizens and corporations engaged in local business. International Harvester Co. v. Kentucky, 234 U.S. 579 , 34 S.Ct. 944 , 58 L.Ed. 1479 . It is similarly subject to garnishment and writ of attachment. Davis v. Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co., 217 U.S. 157 , 30 S.Ct. 463 , 54 L.Ed. 708 , 27 L.R.A.(N.S.) 823, 18 Ann. Cas. 907. It can be deemed to be no less subject, on command of a state tribunal, to the duty to give information appropriate to an inquiry pending there. The present investigation ■ is not a regulation of interstate commerce and it burdens the commerce no more than the obligation owed by all, even those engaged in interstate commerce, to comply with local laws and ordinances, which do not impede the free flow of commerce, where Congress has not acted. Smith v. Alabama, 124 U.S. 465 , 8 S.Ct. 564 , 31 L.Ed. 508 ; Red ‘C’ Oil Co. v. Board of Agriculture, 222 U.S. 380 , 32 S. Ct. 152 , 56 L.Ed. 240 ; Minnesota Rate Cases (Simpson v. Shepard), 230 U.S. 352, 402-412 , 33 S.Ct. 729 , 57 L.Ed. 1511 , 48 L.R.A.(N.S.) 1151, Ann.Cas.1916A, 18; Clyde Mallory Lines v. Alabama ex rel. State Docks Comm’n, 296 U.S. 261 , 56 S.Ct. 194 , 80 L.Ed. 215 , and cases cited. “This Cou”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The extent to which a federal court may rightly relax the rule where the order of the administrative body is assailed in its entirety, rests in the sound discretion which guides exercise of equity jurisdiction.”
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.