Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 578 · 1979
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United Distribution Companies v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1996), Hatch v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1981)
59 federal appellate · 2 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 Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · Mahan v. Howell · Industrial Union Department v. Hodgson
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be confident that missing facts, gross flaws in agency reasoning, and statutorily irrelevant or prohibited policy judgments will come to a reviewing court's attention.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]udicial scrutiny under the National Gas Act is limited to assuring that the Commission's decisionmaking is reasoned, principled, and based upon the record,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“articulate the critical facts upon which it relies”
3 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.