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United Rs. & Elec. Co. of Baltimore v. West

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
280 U.S. 234
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
5 of 5
Citing cases (total)
5
Treatment dates
1944
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. United Railways & Electric Co. of Baltimore v. West was overruled in part on utility depreciation. Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. rejected West's requirement to base annual depreciation allowances on present value rather than cost.
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Later courts continued to cite West's separate statement that regulated utility property remains private property. The confirmed treatment is listed below. All five flagged citations have been read.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

5 later cases cite United Rs. & Elec. Co. of Baltimore v. West; 5 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court rejected West's holding that a utility's annual depreciation allowance must be based on present value instead of cost.

    Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    the propriety of basing annual depreciation on cost. ... We cannot approve the contrary holding ... of United Railways Co. v. West, 280 U. S. 234, 253-254.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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