lowest reasonable rate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 315 U.S. 575 - Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · 1942Most cited · 1,340 citing opinions
By long standing usage in the field of rate regulation the 'lowest reasonable rate' is one which is not confiscatory in the constitutional sense.
How often courts cite the case defining “lowest reasonable rate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lowest reasonable rate” — 1,337 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.