Hoffman v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Brashear v. Brashear (1951), Skidmore v. Skidmore (1935)
33 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 Green v. Green · Shehan v. Shehan · Wills v. Wills · Steele v. Steele · Van Meter v. Van Meter
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having in view the welfare of the children, it is our settled practice in cases of divorce to award the custody of children of tender years, especially girls, to the mother, unless it be made to appear that she is not a suitable person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fugate v. Fugate
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.