Hoffman v. Rauch’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 255 · 1937
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1992 · most notably Central States Corp. v. Luther (1954), Oxford Organisation, Ltd. v. Peterson (In Re Stotler & Co.) (1992)
8 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff · Schuyler v. Littlefield · Blakey v. Brinson · Jennings v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Adams v. Champion
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Depositor) submits that since the bank used the bonds in discharge of a liability it was thereby saved the use of its own funds for that purpose and the assets of the bank at the time of closing were therefore larger in amount than they otherwise would have been. 300 U.S. at 256 , 57 S.Ct. at 446 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.