Hoffman v. Gosline’s Empirical Analysis
172 F. 113 · 1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1947
4 federal appellate ·
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 Dows v. National Exchange Bank · Harrison v. Fortlage · Mora Y Ledon v. . Havemeyer · Eliza Hancox v. Langdon · Merchants' National Bank of Cincinnati v. Bangs
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing, perhaps, is better settled than that the intention of the parties must be given controlling effect in issues concerning the passing of title to personal property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baldwin v. Reynolds
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.