Woods v. Cloyd W. Miller Co.’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 138 · 1948
Citation profile
224 federal appellate · 37 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Winters v. People of State of New York (1948)
224 federal appellate · 37 district · 65 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bowles v. Willingham · Block v. Hirsh · Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. · Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair
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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he constitutionality of action taken by Congress does not depend on recitals of the power which it undertakes to exercise.'”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term `controlled housing accommodations' means housing accommodations in any defense-rental area, except that it does not include — (1) those housing accommodations, in any establishment which is commonly known as a hotel in the community in which it is located, which are occupied by persons who are provided customary hotel services such as maid service, furnishing and laundering of linen, telephone and secretarial or desk service, use and upkeep of furniture and fixtures, and bellboy service; * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the present Act’ the Housing Expediter is authorized to remove the rent controls in any defensé-rental area if in his judgment the need no longer exists by reason of new construction or satisfaction of demand in other ways. ■ .(Emphasis supplied.) The powers thus delegated are far less extensive, than those sustained in Bowles v. Willingham, supra, 321 U.S. [503] 512-515, 64 S.Ct. [641], 647, 88 L.Ed. 892 . Nor is there here a grant of unbridled administrative ■ discretion. The .standards prescribed passed muster under our decisions.” ,. , ...”
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.