Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Util. Dist. No. 1 of Snohomish Cty.’s Empirical Analysis
554 U.S. 527 · 2008
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 17 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 258 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably At&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011), Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P'ship v. Clark (2017)
121 federal appellate · 17 district · 11 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717D · 16 U.S.C. § 791A (§ 321 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824 (§ 201 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824D (§ 205 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 824E (§ 206 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Morton v. Ruiz
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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'just and reasonable' is obviously incapable of precise judicial definition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e afford great deference to the Commission in its rate decisions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unfair dealing at the contract formation stage.”
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.