Hoffman v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Ralph Seymour & Burford Buick Corp. v. Richardson (1953), 153 W. Va. 143 - Fortner v. Napier (1969)
30 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 Street v. Consumers Mining Corp. · Addison v. Salyer · Anderson v. Hygeia Hotel Co. · Stacy v. Mullins · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Decatur
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is made plain in the later cases of Brammer v. Norfolk &c. R. Co., 107 Va. 206 , 57 S. E. 593 ; Virginia Elec., &c. Co. v. Decatur, 173 Va. 153 , 3 S. E. 2d 172 (dissenting opinion 4 S. E. 2d 294 ); and Street v. Consumers Mining Corp., 185 Va. 561 , 39 S. E. 2d 271 , 167 A. L. R. 886, that it is the cause of action of the injured person that the personal representative prosecutes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jurisdiction of the appellate court on appeal from the [general district court] is derivative, and if the [general district court] had no jurisdiction the appellate court acquires none on appeal.”
1 later decision 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.