Lee v. . Hoff’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1986
7 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 Clevenger v. . Grover · Gorgon v. Pintsch Gas Co. · Henderson v. . Graham · Fountain v. County of Pitt · Grady v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer does not have the right to amend his return to a summons after the return is filed, but the court, under its discretionary power, in meritorious cases may grant him leave to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hassell v. Wilson“The Court is bound in every case to exercise a sound discretion, and to allow or disallow an amendment as may best tend to the furtherance of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hassell v. Wilson
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.