Federal Power Commission v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. (1991), California v. Southland Royalty Co. (1978)
34 federal appellate ·
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
reviewedMoss v. Federal Power Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 15 U.S.C. § 717D · 15 U.S.C. § 717F · 15 U.S.C. § 717R
Relies on Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc. · Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. · Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission · United States v. Detroit & Cleveland Navigation 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under § 4(a), 15 U.S.C. § 717c(a). Third, a permanent certificate issued by the Commission and accepted by the producer is not subject to change in later proceedings under § 4 of the Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717c, and the rates may be collected without risk of refund obligations. 48 F.P.C., at 226. See 18 CFR § 2.75(d) (1975). Fourth, Order No. 455 authorizes inclusion in the permanent certificate of . . . abandonment assurance or”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under § 7(c) of the Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717f(c), warrants the issuance of a certificate authorizing the sale and whether the rates called for by the contract are”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“notwithstanding that the contract rate may be in excess of an area ceiling rate established in a prior opinion or order of this Commission.”
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.