Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company v. Public Utilities Commission of State of California General Telephone Company of California’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 1309 · 1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999
8 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 Western Air Lines, Inc. v. California · 42 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Western Air Lines, Inc. · 6 Cal. 3d 484 - People v. Medina · 62 Cal. 2d 634 - Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Napa Valley Electric Co v. Board of Railroad Com'rs of California
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any proceeding wherein the validity of any order or decision is challenged on the ground that it violates any right of petitioner under the Constitution of the United States, the [California] Supreme Court shall exercise an independent judgment on the law and the facts, and the findings or conclusions of the commission material to the determination of the constitutional question shall not be final.”
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.