Hoffman v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1937
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ They indicate that the defendant has been guilty of very gross violations of duty, some, at least, of which would be properly cognizable in settling the equities on the accounting for rents and profits, which is one of the important incidents of a partition in equity,” citing Story’s Equity Jurisprudence, § 655.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henkel v. Henkel
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.