West River Electric Association Inc v. Black Hills Power and Light Company Black Hills Power and Light Company’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2018
3 district · 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Carnegie v. United States · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Mandel v. Bradley · Carnegie 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“None of the funds appropriated or made available by this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used by any Department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States to purchase electricity in a manner inconsistent with State law governing the provision of electric utility service, including State utility commission rulings and electric utility franchises or service territories established pursuant to State statute, State regulation, or State-approved territorial agreements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[b]ecause of the fundamental importance of the principles shielding federal installations and activities from regulation by the states, an authorization of state regulation is found only when and to the extent there is a clear congressional mandate, specific congressional action that makes this authorization of state regulation clear and unambiguous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent such amendment, we can only conclude that in enacting section 8093, Congress sought to submit federal installations and other federal agencies to state regulation in the procurement of utility service, while refraining from subjecting a federal enclave, a constitutionally-created entity, to such state control.”
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.