Colorado-Wyoming Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 626 · 1945
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 6 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission (1945), Federal Power Commission v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co. (1955)
95 federal appellate · 6 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedColorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. · Florida v. United States · United States v. Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. · Illinois Natural Gas Co. v. Central Illinois Public Service Co.
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we must first know what the `finding' is before we can give it that conclusive weight. We have repeatedly emphasized the need for clarity and completeness in the basic or essential findings on which administrative orders rest,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, to the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale for ultimate public consumption for domestic, commercial, industrial, or any other use, and to natural-gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale, but shall not apply to any other transportation or sale of natural gas or to the local distribution of natural gas or to the facilities used for such distribution or to the production or gathering of natural gas.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.”
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.