Federal Power Commission v. East Ohio Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 464 · 1950
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 302 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Maryland v. Louisiana (1981), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin (1954)
188 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedEast Ohio Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 717E
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Forrester v. White · Smyth v. Ames · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond
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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 1(b) made the Natural Gas Act applicable to three separate things: '(1) the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce; (2) its sale in interstate commerce for resale; and (3) natural gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The present arrangement is the subject of federal regulation pursuant to the NGA because the arrangement involves the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, not a local sale.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For in decisions prior to enactment of the statute this Court ... had made it clear that the national commerce power alone covered the high-pressure trunk lines to the point where pressure was reduced and the gas entered local mains, while the state alone could regulate the gas after it entered those mains.”
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.