Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Michigan Public Service Commission’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 329 · 1951
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 9 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005 · most notably Breard v. City of Alexandria La (1951), General Motors Corp. v. Tracy (1997)
90 federal appellate · 9 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 27 U.S.C. § 121 (Wilson Act)
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission · Buck v. Kuykendall
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant asserts a right to compete for the cream of the volume business without regard to the local public convenience or necessity. Were appellant successful in this venture, it would no doubt be reflected adversely in Consolidated’s over-all costs of service and its rates to customers whose only source of supply is Consolidated. This clearly presents a situation of “essentially local” concern and of vital interest to the State of Michigan.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he sale and distribution of gas to local consumers made by one engaged in interstate commerce is ‘essentially local’ in aspect and is subject to state regulation without infringement of the Commerce Clause. . . . These principles apply to direct sales for individual consumption as well as to sales for domestic and commercial uses.” Id. at 333 , 71 S. Ct. at 779 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress occupied only a part of the field. As to sales, only the sale of gas in interstate commerce for resale was covered. Direct sales for consumptive use were designedly left to state regulation.”
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.