United States Ex Rel. Chapman v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
219 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 398 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Nixon (1974), Andrus v. Sierra Club (1979)
219 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 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
reviewedUnited States Ex Rel. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior v. Federal Power Commission Virginia Rea Ass'n v. Federal Power Commission (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 792 (§ 1 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 797 (§ 4 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 800 (§ 7 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 803 (§ 10 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 807 (§ 14 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825S · 28 U.S.C. § 2 · 33 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co. · First Iowa Hydro-Electric Cooperative v. Federal Power Commission · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · State of Oklahoma Phillips v. Guy F Atkinson 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 398 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a complicated specialty of federal jurisdiction,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n the end it was for the Commission, not us, to evaluate the respective justifications put forth on the record, and to choose between two divergent theories in setting the amount of the challenged fac tor. A conclusion on “conflicting engineering and economic issues is precisely that which the Commission exists to determine, so long as it cannot be said ... that the judgment which it exercised had no basis in evidence and so was devoid of reason.””
3 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.