Hoffner v. Kreh’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
4 federal appellate · 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 Weddle, Administratrix v. Draper · Burks v. Webb, Administratrix · Davis v. Sykes · Hemming v. Hutchinson · Jackson v. Prestage
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no evidence, only conjecture, as to how [the victim] became prone in the lane of traffic. He may have fallen asleep, become ill, or sought to commit suicide. He may have rolled into the road from the shoulder just before Kreh's car reached him. There is no way to determine what happened, how long he had been in the road, or whether he had been walking, running, standing, or sitting before lying down."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rich v. Commonwealth“In a negligence action, it is the plaintiff's burden to prove how and why the accident happened.”
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.