State v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Cesare v. Cesare (1998), Bosland v. Warnock Dodge, Inc. (2009)
206 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 Screws v. United States · Rowan v. United States Post Office Department · Merin v. Maglaki · GE Solid State, Inc v. Director, Division of Taxation · State v. Maguire
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, he: a. Makes, or causes to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; . . . . c. Engages in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person. (Emphasis added.)”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“effectuate the legislative intent in light of the language used and the objects sought to be achieved.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]nnoyance means to disturb, irritate, or bother.”
7 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.