Woods v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 919 · 1949
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Orenstein v. United States (1951), Moore v. United States (1952)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Creedon v. Randolph · Woods v. Richman · Bowles v. Skaggs
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the action to compel restitution is not solely for the redress of private wrongs; it is primarily concerned with the vindication of public rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. Griggs
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.