Hoffman v. Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 1981
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barbato v. Epstein · Smith Development Corp. v. Bilow Enterprises, Inc. · State v. Contreras · Morinville v. Morinville · D'ANDREA v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto * * * stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.