Duquesne Light Co. v. Monroeville Borough

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the public utility commission has approval power over local undergrounding ordinances and “ultimate authority to determine the particulars of implementation, including timing, feasibility and cost of the project”
• explaining that where the PUC and a local government had overlapping statutory authority the General Assembly intended the statutes to be applied harmoniously
• Commission is the appropriate forum for the adjudication of public utility facilities within the Commonwealth
• PUC has exclusive regulatory jurisdiction over the implementation of public utility facilities
• decided under a state statute concerning licensure of eating or drinking places

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Feingold v. Bell of Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 200×
• Elkin v. Bell Tel. Co. of Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-11· cited 99×
• City of Pittsburgh v. Allegheny Valley Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 52×
• City of Albuquerque v. New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2003-09-30· cited 42×
• State v. Percy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-01-22· cited 40×
• Leveto v. National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 28×
• Triumph Hosiery Mills, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 24×
• City of Philadelphia v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-06· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-14· cited 14×
• Allport Water Authority v. Winburne Water Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 13×
• Philadelphia v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 13×
• Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority v. Rugare
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-03· cited 11×
• Bradley v. Township of South Londonderry
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-03· cited 11×
• Springdale Township v. Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-26· cited 11×
• Litman v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-20· cited 10×
• City of Edmonds v. General Telephone Co. of Northwest, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-08-28· cited 9×
• Henry v. Control Products Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 9×
• South Coventry Township v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-22· cited 9×
• The Delaware Riverkeeper Network v. Sunoco Pipeline, L.P.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-20· cited 8×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Duquesne Light Co. v. Upper St. Clair Township
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-05-24· cited 105×
• Chester County v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-03-22· cited 58×
• York Water Co. v. York
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1915-05-26· cited 43×
• Lansdale Borough v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-05-22· cited 42×
• Behrend v. Bell Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-07-01· cited 33×
• Einhorn v. Philadelphia Electric Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-30· cited 32×