Mississippi Valley Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 503 · 1995
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United Distribution Companies v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1996), US West Communications v. MFS Intelenet, Inc. (1999)
22 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 15 U.S.C. § 717R
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. New Mexico
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has been a prudential attempt to time review in a way that balances the petitioner's interest in prompt consideration of allegedly unlawful agency action against the agency's interest in crystallizing its policy before that policy is subjected to judicial review and the court's interests in avoiding unnecessary adjudication and in deciding issues in a concrete setting.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“both the fitness of the issues for judicial decision and the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the fitness prong ..., we are to consider the nature of the challenged issue and inquire whether the agency action is sufficiently final for review.... When a petitioner 'raises a purely legal question,' we assume that issue is suitable for judicial review.”
1 later decision 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.