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950 F. Supp. 2d 140 - Alston v. Geithner’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
February 2019
most recently cited

1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 5 U.S.C. § 706

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Scott v. Harris · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · United States v. Chemical Foundation, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “serves as the mechanism for deciding, as a matter of law, whether the agency action is supported by the administrative record and [is] otherwise consistent with the APA standard of review.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Under the Administrative Procedure Act, a court may set aside an agency's final decision only if it is 'arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
    2 later decisions 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.