United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Ideal Cement Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 36 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012 · most notably Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976), City of New Orleans v. Dukes (1976)
62 federal appellate · 36 district · 9 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
reviewedIdeal Cement Co. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254
Relies on Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People · Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota · Leiter Minerals, Inc. v. United States · Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission · Clay v. Sun Ins. Office Ltd.
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of state law by the Court of Appeals, in an opinion by its Alabama member, was rendered in advance of construction of the [statute] by the courts of the State, which alone, of course, can define its authoritative meaning.”
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.