Palmer v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 109 · 1943
Citation profile
1,635 federal appellate · 109 district · 467 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,863 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hickman v. Taylor (1947), Hanna v. Plumer (1965)
1,635 federal appellate · 109 district · 467 state decisions — followed in 42 states
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
reviewedHoffman v. Palmer (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Shepard v. United States · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L
Cited together with Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Cities Service Oil Co. v. Dunlap · New York Life Ins. v. Taylor · Glasser v. United States
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 2,863 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“typical of entries made systematically or as a matter of routine to record events or occurrences, to reflect transactions with others, or to provide internal controls.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In fairness to the trial court and to the parties, objections to a charge must be sufficiently specific to bring into focus the precise nature of the alleged error.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He who seeks to have a judgment set aside because of an erroneous ruling carries the burden of showing that prejudice resulted.”
17 later decisions 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.