State v. Hoffler’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Breen v. Phelps (1982), S.M.S. Textile Mills, Inc. v. Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C. (1993)
2 district · 92 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 Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Chambers v. Maroney · Ker v. State of California
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a matter has already been put in issue, heard and ruled on pursuant to a motion to suppress, the court in the subsequent trial, although not conclusively bound by the prior ruling, may if it is of the opinion that the issue was correctly decided, properly treat it as the law of the case, in the absence of some new or overriding circumstance.” [State v. Hoffler, 174 Conn. 452 , 389 A.2d 1257 (1978).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not consider . . . evidentiary rulings . . . where no claim of error was preserved for review on appeal by proper objection and exception.”
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.