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18 canonical passages across 16 cases, quoted by 2,994 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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe Anchor | red | “whether the decision was based on a consideration of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of judgment.” | 703 |
| 2 | Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. | green | “uphold a decision of less than ideal clarity if the agency's path may reasonably be discerned.” | 533 |
| 3 | Camp v. Pitts | green | “the focal point for judicial review should be the administrative record already in existence, not some new record made initially in the reviewing court.” | 514 |
| 4 | Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe | red | “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.” | 502 |
| 5 | Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States | green | “rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.” | 275 |
| 6 | Occidental Engineering Co. v. Immigration & Naturalization Service | green | “the function of the district court is to determine whether or not as a matter of law the evidence in the administrative record permitted the agency to make the decision it did.” | 196 |
| 7 | Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. | green | “sets forth the full extent of judicial authority to review executive agency action for procedural correctness.” | 122 |
| 8 | Center for Food Safety v. Salazar | green | “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.” | 33 |
| 9 | Sierra Club v. Mainella | green | “in a case involving review of a final agency action under the apa ... the standard set forth in rule 56(c) does not apply because of the limited role of a court in reviewing the administrative record.” | 32 |
| 10 | Chrysler Motors Corp. v. Auto Body Panels of Ohio, Inc., and Haur Tay Enterprise Co., Ltd. | green | “adequate showing with regard to any one factor may be sufficient, given the weight or lack of it assigned the other factors,” | 27 |
| 11 | Cubic Applications, Inc. v. United States | green | “the primary focus of the court's review should be the materials that were before the agency when it made its final decision.” | 19 |
| 12 | North Carolina Fisheries Ass'n, Inc. v. Gutierrez | green | “there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” | 12 |
| 13 | Natl Treas Empl v. FLRA | green | “when congress has spoken, we are bound by that pronouncement and that ends this court's inquiry.” | 6 |
| 14 | Contracting Consulting Engineering LLC v. United States | green | “no single factor is determinative, and 'the weakness of the showing regarding one factor may be overborne by the strength of the others.” | 5 |
| 15 | Parcel 49c Limited Partnership v. United States | green | “information upon which the agency relied when it made its decision” | 4 |
| 16 | Parcel 49c Limited Partnership v. United States | green | “is missing relevant information that by its very nature would not be found in an agency record-such as evidence of bad faith, . . . or the content of conversations.” | 4 |
| 17 | Gulf Group Inc. v. United States | green | “the presence (by the government) or absence (by the protester) of any rational basis for the agency decision must be demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence.” | 4 |
| 18 | New York v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | green | “whether the agency's interpretation is based on a permissible construction of the statute.” | 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.