California v. Lo-Vaca Gathering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Maryland v. Louisiana (1981), Atlantic Refining Company v. Federal Trade Commission Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (1965)
111 federal appellate · 15 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
reviewedLo-Vaca Gathering Company, Houston Pipe Line Company and El Paso Natural Gas Company v. Federal Power Commission (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin · United States v. Storer Broadcasting Co. · Addison v. Holly Hill Fruit Products, Inc.
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he fact that a substantial part of the gas [from a local producer] will be resold ... invokes federal jurisdiction at the outset over the entire transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We said in Connecticut Co. v. Federal Power Comm'n , 324 U.S. 515, 529, 65 S.Ct. 749, 89 L.Ed. 1150, 'Federal jurisdiction was to follow the flow of electric energy, an engineering and scientific, rather than a legalistic or governmental, test.' And that is the test we have followed under both the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act, except as Congress itself has substituted a so-called legal standard for the technological one. Id. , at 530-531, 65 S.Ct. 749.”
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.