Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co.’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 246 · 1951
Citation profile
828 federal appellate · 100 district · 142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,718 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
828 federal appellate · 100 district · 142 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedNorthwestern Public Service Co. v. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 824 (§ 201 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824D (§ 205 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824E (§ 206 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825D (§ 305 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825E (§ 306 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825F (§ 307 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825H (§ 309 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825P (§ 317 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company
Cited together with Bell v. Hood · Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Hall · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty 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 1,718 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutory reasonableness is an abstract quality represented by an area rather than a pinpoint. It allows a substantial spread between what is unreasonable because too low and what is unreasonable because too high.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e know of no case where the court has ordered reference of an issue which the administrative body would not itself have jurisdiction to determine in a proceeding for that purpose.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As frequently happens where jurisdiction depends on subject matter, the question whether jurisdiction exists has been confused with the question whether the complaint states a cause of action.”
29 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.