Alabama Power Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 1361 · 1988
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1989), Synovus Financial Corporation v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1991)
20 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2321 · 28 U.S.C. § 2323 · 28 U.S.C. § 2344 · 28 U.S.C. § 2348 · 49 U.S.C. § 10707 · 49 U.S.C. § 10709 · 49 U.S.C. § 11705 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Dixson v. United States · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party is incapable of continuing the suit, such as where a party becomes incompetent[,] or a transfer of interest in the company or property involved in the suit has occurred,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“According to the Simmons court, failure to dismiss the suit “would enable a late-filing party ... to perfect an appeal beyond the 60-day period which the statute prescribes”.... This the court would not condone since “[t]he sixty day period for seeking judicial review ... is jurisdictional.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[n]ecessary' means that a party to the suit is unable to continue to litigate.”
2 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.