225 Mich. App. 103 - People v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2018
3 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seemingly random and inexplicable attack”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““While intent and motive are frequently regarded as one and the same thing, there is a clear distinction between them. Motive is the cause or reason that moves the will and induces action for a definite result, while intent is the purpose to use a particular means to effect such result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“it is used to prove the character of a person in order to show that he or she acted in conformity with that character on a particular occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Clark
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.