Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
340 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 577 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968), Heckler v. Campbell (1983)
340 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
reviewedTexaco, Inc. v. Federal Power Commission (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 16 U.S.C. § 825L (§ 313 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 5 U.S.C. § 1003
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · United Gas Pipe Line Company v. Mobile Gas Service Corporation · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin · United States v. Storer Broadcasting 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 577 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statutory requirement for a hearing under § 7 does not preclude the Commission from particularizing statutory standards through the rule-making process and barring at the threshold those who neither measure up to them nor show reasons why in the public interest the rule should be waived.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“refers only to the operations directly affected by the Administrator's action, in this case the off-shore platforms, which are outside the circuit. 6 The legislative history of the Act shows that the Senate version provided for review of actions national in scope in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and of other actions in the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“erred in failing to dismiss [a] petition for lack of venue”
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.