United States v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 206 · 1943
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 21 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation (1960), Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe (1979)
61 federal appellate · 21 district · 30 state decisions
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
reviewedUnited States v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas · United States v. Oregon · United States v. Bob Celestine · United States v. Sam Pelican
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has long been both customary and lawful to stimulate private self-interest and utilize the profit motive to get needful services performed for the public. The State appears to be doing no more than that.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in accordance with the laws 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.