Boston Gas Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Algonquin Gas Transmission Company, Intervenors’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 975 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1987), Asarco, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1985)
40 federal appellate · 1 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 City of Pittsburgh v. Federal Power Commission · Magnolia Petroleum Company v. Federal Power Commission, the Ohio Oil Company v. Federal Power Commission, the Superior Oil Company v. Federal Power Commission, Wesley West v. Federal Power Commission · Public Service Commission of the State of New York, v Federal Power Commission, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation Sun Oil Company, v Federal Power Commission, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation and Philadelphia Gas Works Division of Ugi Corporation, Intervenors. General Crude Oil Company, v Federal Power Commission, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation and Philadelphia Gas Works Division of Ugi Corporation, Intervenors. M.H. Marr, v Federal Power Commission, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation and Philadelphia Gas Works Division of Ugi Corporation, Intervenors. Continental Oil Company, v Federal Power Commission, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation and Philadelphia Gas Works Division of Ugi Corporation, Intervenors. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, v Federal Power Commission, Sun Oil Company, Intervenors · Sam Rayburn Dam Electric Cooperative v. Federal Power Commission
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o proceeding to review any order of the Commission shall be brought by any person unless such person shall have made application to the Commission for rehearing thereon.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e do not think that the purpose of the statute is purely one of administrative exhaustion____ We have no basis for assuming that the need for prompt resolution of Commission affairs is any less important a goal than that of permitting the Commission a second chance to modify its decisions____ While our concerns here may seem unduly technical, we believe they are of considerable importance both for admin istrative agencies and the courts. To accept petitioner’s argument, we would have to rewrite § 19(a) fundamentally____ [The statute] appears to be a tightly structured and formal provision. Neither the Commission nor the courts are given any form of jurisdictional discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]therwise, we would `permit an endless cycle of applications for rehearing and denials,' limited only by FERC's ability to think up new rationales.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.