American Paper Institute, Inc. v. American Electric Power Service Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
165 federal appellate · 91 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 473 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Williamson v. United States (1994), In re Gartside (2000)
165 federal appellate · 91 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedAmerican Electric Power Service Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 796 (§ 3 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 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. § 824A · 16 U.S.C. § 824I (§ 210 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824K (§ 212 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825 (§ 301 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon
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 473 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not find that [the agency's] construction [of its enabling act] is the only reasonable one, or even that it is the result we would have reached had the question arisen in the first instance in judicial proceedings.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a contemporary construction of a statute by [those] charged with the responsibility of setting its machinery in motion, of making the parts work efficiently and smoothly, while they are yet untried and new,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No such rule prescribed under subsection (a) of this section shall provide for a rate which exceeds the incremental cost to the electric utility of alternative electric energy”
4 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.