United States v. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 15 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Dixon (1993), Grady v. Corbin (1990)
189 federal appellate · 15 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedUnited States v. Woodward (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Albernaz v. United States · United States v. Gilliland
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 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conceal[ed] ... by any trick, scheme, or device, " (Emphasis added.) A person could, without employing a "trick, scheme, or device,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule for determining whether Congress intended to permit cumulative punishment”
2 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.