Permian Basin Area Rate Cases’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2,116 federal appellate · 100 district · 367 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,535 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Hensley v. Eckerhart (1983), Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983)
2,116 federal appellate · 100 district · 367 state decisions — followed in 38 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
reviewedSkelly Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 717A · 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 15 U.S.C. § 717D · 15 U.S.C. § 717F · 15 U.S.C. § 717O · 15 U.S.C. § 717R
Relies on Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Munn v. Illinois
Cited together with Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · United Gas Pipe Line Company v. Mobile Gas Service Corporation · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin · Public Service Commission of State of New York Tennessee Gas Transmission Co Public Service Commission of State of New York
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 3,535 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the heavy burden of making a convincing showing that it is invalid because it is unjust and unreasonable in its consequences.”
227 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“98. We understand the principal points at which the Commission employed noncost factors to be four. It used the logic of functional pricing to justify both its two-price rate structure and its selections of sources of cost data. Second, it explained its imposition of a single maximum rate upon all old gas by, among other reasons, the importance of a relatively uncomplicated rate structure. Third, the Commission justified its adoption of a temporary period of price restriction by the exigencies of area regulation. Fourth, the Commission based its calculation of the rate of return upon the risk factors that it did not directly reduce to cost components.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . labored with obvious difficulty to regulate a diverse and growing industry under the terms of an ill-suited statute . . .”
2 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.