Skelly Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.2d 6 · 1967
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991 · most notably Withrow v. Larkin (1975), Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relationships
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · United States v. Morgan · Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accept the agency determination in blind faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The assumptions, allocations, formulae, equations, averages, means, and massive calculations may intrigue a mathematician or statistician but they have no attraction for us. We respectfully decline to be drawn into such a turmoil of numbers. We cannot in a few months unravel the snarl of statistics developed in the years of hearings. In our opinion, the judicial process, in cases such as this, should be confined to consideration of errors of law. We leave to the experts the selections of source material and the calculations to be made therefrom. Our concern is with the result.”
1 later decision 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.