In Re Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably 17 Cal. 3d 129 - Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976), 40 Cal. 3d 277 - Cohen v. Board of Supervisors (1985)
2 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 In Re Smith · In Re Murphy · Ex parte Shen · City of Bellingham v. Cissna · Van Blaricum v. People
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It may often, and does often, happen that the requirements which the state sees fit to impose may not be adequate to meet the demands of densely populated municipalities, so that it becomes proper, and even necessary, for municipalities to add to state regulations provisions adapted to their special requirements."”
1 later decision 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.