Woods v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 1444 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Bennett v. New Jersey (1985), United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 2013 · 7 U.S.C. § 2014 · 7 U.S.C. § 2019 · 7 U.S.C. § 2022 · 7 U.S.C. § 2024
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Schweiker v. Hansen · Rex Trailer Company v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence cannot be based upon an inference drawn from facts which are uncertain or speculative and which raise only a conjecture or a possibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Administration of the [food stamp] program could be delegated to local or state agencies, but the ultimate responsibility for operation of the plan remained with the state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robertson v. Jackson“inherent in the effective administration of such a program,”
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.