Federal Communications Commission v. Woko, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 223 · 1946
Citation profile
352 federal appellate · 9 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 552 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Greater Boston Television Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., a Massachusettscorporation, Intervenor. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Greater Boston Televisioncorporation, a Massachusetts Corporation, Intervenor. Charles River Civic Television, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Boston Broadcasters, Inc., Intervenor. Greater Boston Tv Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors (1971), Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)
352 federal appellate · 9 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWoko, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
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 552 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact of concealment may be more significant than the facts concealed. The willingness to deceive a regulatory body may be disclosed by immaterial and useless deceptions as well as by material and persuasive ones. We do not think it is an answer to say that the deception was unnecessary and served no purpose.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to deal with all cases at all times as it has dealt with some that seem comparable.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We agree that this is a hard case, but we cannot agree that it should be allowed to make bad law.”
7 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.