Federal Power Commission v. Idaho Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
307 federal appellate · 36 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 578 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Barrows v. Jackson (1953), Federal Communications Commission v. National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting (1978)
307 federal appellate · 36 district · 45 state decisions
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
reviewedIdaho Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 797 (§ 4 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 28 U.S.C. § 2101
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co. · United States v. City & County of San Francisco · Ford Motor Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Jacob Siegel Co. v. Federal Trade 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 578 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ends when an error of law is laid bare. At that point the matter once more goes to the Commission for reconsideration.”
23 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.