statutory reasonableness
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 246 - Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co. · 1951Most cited · 1,718 citing opinions
Statutory reasonableness is an abstract quality represented by an area rather than a pinpoint. It allows a substantial spread between what is unreasonable because too low and what is unreasonable because too high. To reduce the abstract concept of reasonableness to concrete expression in dollars and cents is the function of the Commission.
How often courts cite the case defining “statutory reasonableness”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “statutory reasonableness” — 1,701 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.