Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 58 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Sevoian v. Ashcroft (2002), In re Gartside (2000)
65 federal appellate · 58 district ·
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.
Relationships
Relies on Camp v. Pitts · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company Calumet Harbor Terminals Inc · Portland Cement Ass'n v. Ruckelshaus · Securities Industry Ass'n v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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 208 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 law.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether the administrator was arbitrary must be determined on the basis of what he had before him when he acted.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]his does not consign paragraph (E) of the APA's judicial review section to pointlessness. The distinctive function of paragraph (E)-what it achieves that paragraph (A) does not-is to require substantial evidence to be found within the record of closed-record proceedings to which it exclusively applies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.