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8 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 235 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Heckler v. Chaney.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heckler v. Chaney Anchor | green | “an agency's decision not to prosecute or enforce, whether through civil or criminal process, is a decision generally committed to an agency's absolute discretion.” | 93 |
| 2 | Heckler v. Chaney | green | “review is not to be had if the statute is drawn so that a court would have no meaningful standard against which to judge the agency's exercise of discretion.” | 44 |
| 3 | Heckler v. Chaney | green | “the statute is drawn so that a court would have no meaningful standard against which to judge the agency's exercise of discretion.” | 42 |
| 4 | Arizona v. United States | green | “a principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials.” | 24 |
| 5 | Lincoln v. Vigil | green | “committed to agency discretion by law.” | 12 |
| 6 | Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting | green | “the terms and conditions of admission to the country and the subsequent treatment of aliens lawfully in the country.” | 9 |
| 7 | Lincoln v. Vigil | green | “the allocation of funds from a lump-sum appropriation is another administrative decision traditionally regarded as committed to agency discretion.” | 8 |
| 8 | Ferris v. United States | green | “a contractor who is one of several persons to be paid out of an appropriation is not chargeable with knowledge of its administration, nor can his legal rights be affected or impaired by its maladministration or by its diversion, whether legal or illegal, to other objects.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.