Gulf Oil Corp. v. Federal Power Commission’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 588 · 1977
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In Re Water Use Permit Applications (2000), Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (1982)
48 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A warranty is an assurance by one party to a contract of the existence of a fact upon which the other party may rely. It is intended precisely to relieve the promisee of any duty to ascertain the fact for himself; it amounts to a promise to indemnify the promisee for any loss if the fact warranted proves untrue, for obviously the promisor cannot control what is already in the past.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“delivered an amount of gas equivalent to the contract amount less the amounts of gas for which it has paid refunds . . . to charge the contract price plus the amount of the refund previously paid on an equivalent amount of gas. . . . Over the entire contract, Gulf would have received exactly the contract price for all 4.4 Tcf, but it would, in effect, have been required to lose the time value of its money required to compensate its customers for their losses due to Gulf's non-delivery in accordance with the terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The FPC is charged with the public responsibility to enforce the certificate, and in the performance of its duty, the Commission necessarily must resort to the terms of the contract. But this does not mean that the Commission becomes in any sense a party to the contract bound by the mutual obligations between the parties themselves. The reciprocal promises between [the contracting par ties] to resolve their disputes by arbitration are inapplicable to the Commission ’s duty to enforce the certificate of public convenience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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