Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 412 · 1976
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 377 - Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Superior Court (1992), Carpenters Local Union No of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. Pratt-Farnsworth Inc (1982)
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Far East Conference 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In every case the question is whether the reasons for the existence of the doctrine are present and whether the purposes it serves will be aided by its application in the particular litigation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“added expense and delay to the litigants”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When legal disputes develop that'directly affect an industry subject to regulation, the need arises to integrate the regulatory agency into the judicial decision making process. One method to accomplish integration is to have the agency pass in the first instance on those issues that are within its competence. In short, the agency should have the first word (Id. at 417 (emphasis added).)”
2 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.