Hoffman v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1945
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the administrator’s deed to Minnie [the purchaser at the administrator’s sale] was not recorded, the plaintiff did not purchase on the faith of its record. Had it been recorded, and had the plaintiff purchased on the faith of its record, without notice that the purchase was made for the administrator, the case would probably have come within the registry laws, upon the same principle that the deed from Thorn [the deceased] himself would have come within them, so far, at least, as regards questions of the kind here presented.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Otis v. Kennedy““The executor or administrator making the sale, and the guardian of any minor heir of the deceased, shall not, directly or indirectly, purchase or be interested in the purchase of any part of the real estate so sold, and all sales made contrary to the provisions of this section shall be void,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Otis v. Kennedy
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.