The Hoffmans’s Empirical Analysis
171 F. 455 · 1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1934
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G · The " Scotland" · Norwich Company v. Wright · The 'Benefactor' Steamship Company v. Mount · Quinlan v. Pew
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is more than one forum in which shipowners can obtain relief under the statute, it would seem that the right of selecting the court rests with them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Titanic
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.