Subpoena Served California Public Utilities Commission Southern California Edison Company v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation Southern California Edison Company’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “(1) the [decision appealed] was a “marginally final order,” (2) [which] “disposed of an unsettled issue of national significance,” (3) review “implemented the same policy Congress sought to promote in § 1292(b),” and (4) the finality issue was not presented to the [appellate court] until argument on the merits, thereby ensuring that policies of judicial economy would not be served by remanding the case with an important unresolved issue.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Service Employees International Union, Local 102 v. County of San Diego · Service Employees International Union, Local 102 v. County of San Diego

2. “[I]f the district court denie[s] a nonparty's motion to quash, the nonparty [can] obtain review only by electing to ignore the subpoena and appeal the ensuing contempt citation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Arizona State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund, a Trust v. David Randall Jenkins v. William E. Miller, and Georgia Miller · Milke v. City of Phx.

3. “strong congressional policy against piecemeal review....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re National Mortgage Equity Corporation Mortgage Pool Certificates Litigation · Bank of America v. Feldman