Hodgman v. Atlantic Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.2d 949 · 1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1994
2 federal appellate ·
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 William Peirsoll v. James Elliott · Blassengame v. Boyd · Hodgman v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Gold v. Gold · Romeike v. Romeike
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This principle must be . . . applied, unless the losing party can show that equity and good conscience require a different judgment.”
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.