Northern Natural Gas Company v. State Corporation Commission of Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 9 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 337 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Maryland v. Louisiana (1981), Schneidewind v. ANR Pipeline Co. (1988)
78 federal appellate · 9 district · 63 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Aquilino v. United States
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 337 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese state orders necessarily deal with matters which directly affect the ability of the Federal Power Commission to regulate comprehensively and effectively the transportation and sale of natural gas, and to achieve the uniformity of regulation which was an objective of the Natural Gas Act. They therefore invalidly invade the federal agency's exclusive domain.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrowly confined to the physical acts of drawing the gas from the earth and preparing it for the first stages of distribution.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“invade[s] the exclusive jurisdiction which the Natural Gas Act has conferred upon the [Commission]”
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.