Schofer v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2004
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Dudley & Carpenter v. Hurst, Miller & Co. · Homeseekers' Realty Co. v. Silent Automatic Sales Corp. Ex Rel. Timken Silent Automatic Co. · Abramson v. Penn · Heating & Plumbing Finance Corp. v. Glyndon Permanent Building Ass'n
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Annexation to the realty, either actual or constructive; (2) adaptation of the article or structure to the use of that part of the realty -with which it is connected. (3) the intention of the party making the annexation to make the article a permanent accession to the freehold. This intention being inferred from the nature of the article annexed, the situation of the party making the annexation, the mode of annexation, and the purpose for which it was annexed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.