Natural Gas Clearinghouse v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 1066 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Williams Natural Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1993), Public Utilities Commission of State of California v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1993)
28 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 717C · 15 U.S.C. § 717D · 16 U.S.C. § 803 (§ 10 of the Federal Power Act of 1920)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Hall · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Callery Properties, Inc.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The filed rate doctrine simply does not extend to cases in which buyers are on adequate notice that resolution of some specific issue may cause a later adjustment to the rate being collected at the time of service.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“change[d] what would be purely retroactive ratemaking into a functionally prospective process by placing the relevant audience on notice at the outset that the rates being promulgated [were] provisional only and subject to later revision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“undo what [was] wrongfully done by virtue of [a prior] order,”
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.