Hodge v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 686 · 1944
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Price v. Johnston (1948), Dorsey v. Gill (1945)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Berger v. United States · Mooney v. Holohan · McNally v. Hill · United States v. Throckmorton
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law aims to invest judicial determinations with the utmost permanency consistent with justice. That the formal pronouncements of legal tribunals shall enjoy every possible degree of finality and conclusiveness is a necessary predicate to the proper functioning of courts. To permit their decisions to be evaded for insufficient cause would tend to disrupt the administration of justice and bring courts into disrepute. Sound policy demands that judgments shall not be treated lightly nor easily overthrown. Firmly established principles of law, developed to effectuate this fundamental policy, allow courts to sustain collateral attacks only when the objections to the judgment are such as to render it not merely erroneous but void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Whether or not that decision was proper upon its facts, it finds no counterpart in the present case.” 140 F.2d at 688 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burks v. Egeler
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.