Federal Power Commission v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1987 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 397 - Younger v. Jensen (1980), Federal Power Commission v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. (1965)
28 federal appellate · 6 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
reviewedAmerada Petroleum Corp. v. Federal Power Commission (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · California v. Lo-Vaca Gathering Co. · Federal Power Commission v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. · North Dakota v. Federal Power Commission
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court of Appeals thought that its decision in North Dakota v. Federal Power Comm'n, 247 F.2d 173 , brought collateral estoppel into play in the present case. 334 F.2d 404, 411-412 . But that rule has no place here for no judgment governing past events is in jeopardy, only the scope of future regulation that involves different events and transactions. See Commissioner v. Sunnen, 333 U.S. 591, 601-602 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether cases could be conjured up where in spite of original commingling there might be a separate so-called nonjurisdictional transaction of a precise amount of gas not-for-resale within the meaning of the Act....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“attributed to themselves a greater percentage of so called nonjurisdictional gas than their proportionate share of the gas in the commingled stream”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.