Cities Service Gas Co. v. Peerless Oil & Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 179 · 1950
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 18 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light Co. (1983), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin (1954)
74 federal appellate · 18 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Parker v. Brown · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is now well settled that a state may regulate matters of local concern over which federal authority has not been exercised, even though the regulation has some impact on interstate commerce.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Appellant does not contend that the orders conflict with the federal authority asserted by the Natural Gas Act, 52 Stat. 821 (1938), 15 U.S.C. §§ 717 et seq. (1948). The Federal Power Commission has not participated in these proceedings. Whether the Gas Act authorizes the Power Commission to set field prices on sales by independent producers, or leaves that function to the states, is not before this Court." (p. 188.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the proceedings before the Commission in this case, there was ample evidence to sustain its finding that existing low field prices were resulting in economic waste and conducive to physical waste. That is a sufficient basis for the orders issued. It is no concern of ours that other regulatory devices might be more appropriate, or that less extensive measures might suffice. Such matters are the province of the legislature and the Commission. (Emphasis added).”
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.