Hoffman v. Otto’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
September 1942
most recently cited
7 state decisions
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The State, undoubtedly, could, by appropriate legislation, do the very thing claimed by plaintiff, but such legislation would have to be plainly expressed and cannot be accomplished by construction or implication. “Our attention is not called to any such plainly expressed legislation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.