Pitts v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To the extent necessary to decision and when presented, the reviewing court shall decide all relevant questions of law, interpret constitutional and statutory provisions, and determine the meaning or applicability of the terms of an agency action. The reviewing court shall— “ * * -X- “(2) hold unlawful and set aside agency action, findings, and conclusions found to be— “(A) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law; “ -X- * -X- “(F) unwarranted by the facts to the extent that the facts are subject to trial de novo by the reviewing court. “In making the foregoing determinations, the court shall review the whole record or those parts of it cited by a party, and due account shall be taken of the rule, of prejudicial error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 345 F. Supp. 622 - Farmers National Bank of Annapolis v. Camp

2. ““Abundant authority, with which we agree, holds that the Comptroller’s determination in the present area is not immunized from review by the exemption in the preface of § 1009, APA, reading, ‘Except so far as * * * agency action is by law committed to agency discretion.’ Any discretion vested in the Comptroller in passing upon applications for approval of bank branches is not the type of discretion to which action has been ‘committed by law’ but is rather one of the character expressly made reviewable by § 1009(e) (1). * * *” 352 F.2d at 270.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 345 F. Supp. 622 - Farmers National Bank of Annapolis v. Camp