Laclede Gas Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 936 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1994), Koch Gateway Pipeline Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1998)
30 federal appellate · 2 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 Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Martin v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even when the customer support is unanimous, however, FERC retains the responsibility of making an 'independent judgment' as to whether the settlement amount constitutes a reasonable remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“likely to be congruent with those of ultimate consumers that [the Commission] may rely upon [its] agreement as dispositive of the consumers' interests, notwithstanding the claim of some large and sophisticated consumers to the contrary.”
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.