Woods v. Kaye’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 886 · 1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1987
14 federal appellate ·
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 Yakus v. United States · Bowles v. Willingham · Lockerty v. Phillips · Woods v. Stone · Bowles v. Wheeler
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person should not be permitted to retain that which is illegally acquired even through a mistake of legality.”
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.