Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
913 federal appellate · 35 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,428 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968)
913 federal appellate · 35 district · 130 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedState of Wisconsin v. Federal Power Commission (Phillips Petroleum Co., Intervenor ). City of Detroit, Mich. v. Federal Power Commission (Phillips Petroleum Co., Intervenors). City of Kansas City, Mo. v. Federal Power Commission (Phillips Petroleum Co., Intervenors). City of Milwaukee, Wis. v. Federal Power Commission (Phillips Petroleum Co., Intervenors). Wayne County, Mich. v. Federal Power Commission (Phillips Petroleum Co., Intervenors) (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins
Cited together with Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Ederal Power Commission v. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. · United Gas Pipe Line Company v. Mobile Gas Service Corporation · Public Service Commission of State of New York Tennessee Gas Transmission Co Public Service Commission of State of New York
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 1,428 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[giving] the Commission jurisdiction over the rates of all wholesales of natural gas in interstate commerce, whether by a pipeline company or not and whether occurring before, during, or after transmission by an interstate pipeline company.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Three things and three only Congress drew within its own regulatory power, delegated by the Act to its agent, the Federal Power Commission. These were: (1) the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce; (2) its sale in interstate commerce for resale; and (3) natural gas companies engaged in such transportation or resale.”
6 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.