Trans Alaska Pipeline Rate Cases’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
317 federal appellate · 19 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 720 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Turkette (1981), Rowland v. California Men's Colony, Unit II Men's Advisory Council (1993)
317 federal appellate · 19 district · 12 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
reviewedMobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2341 · 28 U.S.C. § 2349 · 42 U.S.C. § 7101 (Department of Energy Organization Act) · 43 U.S.C. § 1651 (Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act)
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Leedom v. Kyne · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States
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 720 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would lead to absurd results ... or would thwart the obvious purpose of the statute.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pointless charade in which carriers . are required to submit and resubmit tariffs until one finally goes below an undisclosed maximum point of reasonableness and is allowed to take effect. The administrative process, after all, is not modeled on “The Price Is Right.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“legitimate, reasonable, and direct adjunct to the (agency's) explicit statutory power....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.