Chicago School of Automatic Transmissions, Inc. v. Accreditation Alliance of Career Schools & Colleges’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 447 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n (1998), Tourus Records, Inc. v. Drug Enforcement Administration (2001)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Illinois Northern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1099B · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Stinson v. United States · United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc · Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. · O'Melveny & Myers v. Federal Deposit Insurance
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with the law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'contract' the [s]chool wants to enforce is not a bargained-for exchange but a set of rules developed by an entity with many of the attributes of an administrative agency. Accreditation groups adopt and change their rules unilaterally; by posting an application fee a trade school cannot lock in a favorable set of rules.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Which is not at all to imply that an accrediting agency is a “state actor” or “federal actor” with special constitutional obligations in addition to those created by statutes and common law. A governmental body may rely on the decisions of a private association without turning that association into “the government” itself. See Sanjuan v. American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Inc., 40 F.3d 247, 250 (7th Cir.1994). It is the Secretary of Education, and not the Alliance, that must conform the government’s ultimate decision to the Constitution. The School does not raise any constitutional argument; we men tion this point only to guard against reading into our opinion something that it does not contain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.