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Mid-Tex Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis

773 F.2d 327 · 1985

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
April 2019
most recently cited

44 federal appellate · 4 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Associated Gas Distributors v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1987), Transmission Access Policy Study Group v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2000)

44 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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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 16 U.S.C. § 824A (§ 202 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 16 U.S.C. § 825 (§ 301 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 602 · 5 U.S.C. § 603 · 5 U.S.C. § 605 · 5 U.S.C. § 612

Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · Smyth v. Ames · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “small entities to which the proposed rule will apply”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the high cost to small entities of compliance with uniform regulations.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “if the head of the agency certifies that the rule will not, if promulgated, have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.”
    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.