Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
387 federal appellate · 30 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 725 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc. (1974), Mobil Oil Corp. v. Federal Power Commission (1974)
387 federal appellate · 30 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedLouisiana Power & Light Co. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co. (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 · 15 U.S.C. § 717O · 15 U.S.C. § 717R · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · United Gas Pipe Line Company v. Mobile Gas Service Corporation · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.
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 725 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, to the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale for ultimate public consumption for domestic, commercial, industrial, or any other use, and to natural-gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale, but shall not apply to any other transportation or sale of natural gas or to the local distribution of natural gas or to the facilities used for such distribution or to the production or gathering of natural gas.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(agency) created to protect the public interest, must be free, 'within the ambit of (its) statutory authority to make practical adjustments which may be called for by particular circumstances.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No natural-gas company shall, with respect to any transportation or sale of natural gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, (1) make or grant any undue preference or advantage to any person or subject any person to any undue prejudice or disadvantage, or (2) maintain any unreasonable difference in rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, either as between localities or as between classes of service.”
7 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.