American Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 385 · 1945
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Oklahoma v. United States Civil Service Commission (1947), Schenley Distillers Corporation v. United States (1946)
52 federal appellate · 16 district ·
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
reviewedAmerican Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station · Southern Pac Co v. Lowe · Pittsburgh Ry Co v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In awarding a review of an administrative proceeding Congress has power to formulate the conditions under which resort to the courts may be had.””
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.