Hoffman v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2000
18 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 Atlas Portland Cement Co. v. American Brick & Clay Co. · Keller v. Scranton · Slemba v. Hamilton & Sons · Stoddard v. . Whiting · Long v. Cheltenham Township School District
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where ordinary words are used in the Constitution, they must be construed in their popular and general sense, as the people who voted for it would understand them.' This principle is particularly applicable in the present case. There are no express words or sentences in the entire section which invest the term `construction' with other than its general, popular meaning, such as is ordinarily given to it by the people at large, by architects, and by those engaged in building enterprises. The standard dictionaries unite in defining the word `construct' as `to build,' `to erect,' `to make,' in the sense of to create; and the term `construction' they define as the act of constructing or making a completed structure.”
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.