Camp v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1,288 federal appellate · 1,312 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,246 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983), Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1978)
1,288 federal appellate · 1,312 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 19 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedPitts v. Camp (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 26 · 12 U.S.C. § 27 · 5 U.S.C. § 557 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Pitts v. Camp
Cited together with Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 5,246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the focal point for judicial review should be the administrative record already in existence, not some new record made initially in the reviewing court.”
222 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, [or] an abuse of discretion,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the record after opportunity for an agency hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sierra Club
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.