Federal Power Commission v. Florida Power & Light Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 33 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 401 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute Marshall (1980), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Mississippi (1982)
146 federal appellate · 33 district · 26 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
reviewedFlorida Power & Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 824 (§ 201 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824A (§ 202 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825 (§ 301 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825L (§ 313 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · United States v. Public Utilities Commission · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
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 401 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Particularly when we consider a purely factual question within the area of competence of an administrative agency created by Congress, and when resolution of that question depends on “engineering and scientific” considerations, we recognize the relevant agency’s technical expertise and experience, and defer to its analysis unless it is without substantial basis in fact.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or the purpose of this subchapter, electric energy shall be held to be transmitted in interstate commerce if transmitted from a State and consumed at any point outside thereof; but only insofar as such transmission takes place within the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(t)he finding of the Commission as to facts, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive.”
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.