Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 575 · 1942
Citation profile
569 federal appellate · 32 district · 407 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,340 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945), Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965)
569 federal appellate · 32 district · 407 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNatural Gas Pipeline Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · United States v. Darby · Smyth v. Ames · Munn v. Illinois
Cited together with Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin · Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Smyth v. Ames
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 1,340 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution does not bind rate-making bodies to the service of any single formula or combination of formulas. Agencies to whom this legislative power has been delegated are free, within the ambit of their statutory authority to make the pragmatic adjustments which may be called for by particular circumstances.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]egulation does not insure that the business shall produce net revenues.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n important step in rate making is 'the adjustment of a rate schedule conforming to [the general revenue] level so as to eliminate discriminations and unfairness from its details.'”
6 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.