Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 61 · 1943
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin (1954), United States v. Public Utilities Commission (1953)
72 federal appellate · 9 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
reviewedJersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 79 (Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935) · 16 U.S.C. § 824 (§ 201 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825 (§ 301 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825L (§ 313 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 27 U.S.C. § 203 (Federal Alcohol Administration Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 302
Relies on Parker v. Brown · Wickard v. Filburn · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United States · Utah Power & Light Co. v. Pfost
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The provisions of sections 824-824h of this title shall apply to the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and to the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce, but shall not apply to any other sale of electric energy or deprive a State or State commission of its lawful authority now exercised over the exportation of hydroelectric energy which is transmitted across a State line. The Commission shall have jurisdiction over all facilities for such transmission or sale of electric energy, but shall not have jurisdiction, except as specifically provided in sections 824-825r of this title, over facilities used for the generation of electric energy or over facilities used in local distribution or only for the transmission of electric energy in intrastate commerce, or over facilities for the transmission of electric energy consumed wholly by the transmitter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of that part of such business which consists of the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and the sale of such energy at wholesale in interstate commerce is necessary in the public interest, such Federal regulation, however, to extend only to those matters which are not subject to regulation by the States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“electric energy shall be held to be transmitted in interstate commerce if transmitted from a State and consumed at any point outside thereof”
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.