People v. Hoffmann’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1996
21 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
Relies on Commonwealth v. Mulrey · Graham v. People · People Ex Rel. Phelps v. Court of Oyer & Terminer · Commonwealth v. Wood · People v. Knapp
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to us that the evidence was also admissible for the purpose of proving a systematic scheme or plan on the part of the defendant to cheat and defraud the county, thus negativing the idea that the presentation of the claim in question was accidental, or through oversight, or mistake. * * * The jury may well have found, from the evidence complained of, that the filing of the claim, and the receipt of the warrant charged in the indictment, was a part of a plan or scheme adopted by the defendant to cheat and rob the county. For this purpose, as well as for the purpose of establishing the defendant’s knowledge of the falsity of the claim, the evidence was admissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rice
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.