Harding v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Maloney v. Kaminski (1985), Styskal v. Brickey (1954)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Greenberg v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · Borcherding v. Eklund · Whitaker v. Keogh · Murray Ex Rel. Murray v. Pearson Appliance Store · Simcho v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the giving of instruction No. 15 was unnecessary, there was no prejudicial error since the jury was properly instructed upon the burden of proving the negligence charged as a proximate cause of the injury.”
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.