Elizabethtown Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 885 · 1978
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably United Distribution Companies v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1996), Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1978)
23 federal appellate ·
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 Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · M. Morrin & Son Co. v. Burgess Construction Co. · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Portland Cement Ass'n v. Ruckelshaus
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(balance) the benefit accorded a high-priority purchaser with a charge that offsets, at least in part, the added expense imposed by a curtailment plan upon a lower-priority purchaser.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t) he issue on fairness is an issue of policy for the Commission. Our function is only to consider the issue of law whether the Commission has the legal authority to implement that policy of fairness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“latitude to make 'pragmatic adjustments which may be called for by particular circumstances.' " See Elizabethtown Gas Co. v. FERC, 575 F.2d 885 , 888 (D.C.Cir.1978) ("Elizabethtown I”
1 later decision 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.