Public Service Commission of State of New York v. Mid-Louisiana Gas Company Arizona Electric Power Cooperative Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1987), Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. (1991)
100 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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
reviewedMid-Louisiana Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 3301 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 3311 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 3413 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 3431 · 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 717C
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Commission may, by rule or order, prescribe a maximum lawful price, applicable to any first sale of any high-cost natural gas, which exceeds the otherwise applicable maximum lawful price to the extent that such special price is necessary to provide reasonable incentives for the production of such high-cost natural gas.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“comprehensively and dramatically changed the method of pricing natural gas produced in the United States.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contrary to the history, structure, and basic philosophy of the [Act]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Specialty Equipment Market Association v. William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc., Intervenor. Automotive Parts Rebuilders Association v. Environmental Protection Agency, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc., Intervenor. Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc. v. William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Automobile Importers of America, Inc. v. William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 174 W. Va. 464 - Pennzoil Co. v. Public Service Commission
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.