United Gas Improvement Co. v. Callery Properties, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
248 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 411 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (1985)
248 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedCallery Properties, Inc. v. Federal Power Commission (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 15 U.S.C. § 717D · 15 U.S.C. § 717F
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Public Service Commission of State of New York Tennessee Gas Transmission Co Public Service Commission of State of New York · Federal Power Commission v. Texaco 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 411 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agency, like a court, can undo what is wrongfully done by virtue of its order.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judicial review at times results in the return of benefits received under the upset administrative order.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consumer protection is afforded by keeping the 'in-line' price at the level where substantial amounts of gas have been certificated to enter the market under other contemporaneous certificates.... We believe the Commission can properly conclude under Sec. 7 that adequate protection to the public interest requires as an interim measure that gas not enter the interstate market at prices higher than existing levels.”
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.