United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 881 · 1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1964
8 federal appellate · 1 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 Gompers v. United States · Pendergast v. United States · United States v. Goldman · United States v. Burroughs
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an appeal shall be taken pursuant to this section to any circuit court of appeals or to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which, in the opinion of such court, should have been taken directly to the Supreme Court of the United States, such court shall certify the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, which shall thereupon have jurisdiction to hear and determine the cause to the same extent as if an appeal had been taken directly to that Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““From an order or judgment, sustaining a special plea in bar, where the defendant has not been put in jeopardy * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wong
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.