Brown v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Economopoulos v. Kolaitis · Burroughs v. Keffer · West v. Critzer
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If several inferences may be drawn from the evidence, though they may differ in degree and probability, we adopt those most favorable to the plaintiff `unless they are strained and forced or contrary to reason.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Sobhan“we view the evidence in the light most favorable to [Howell], giving [her] the benefit of all inferences which a jury might fairly draw from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Sobhan
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.