Hoffman's Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably In Re Estate of Pedrick (1984), Atlantic Refining Co. v. Wyoming National Bank (1946)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Willard v. Tayloe · John King v. James Hamilton · O'Connell v. Cease · Zimmerman v. Rhoads · Burk's Appeal
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.
““In O’Connell v. Cease et al., 267 Pa. 288 , 110 A. 266 , this court held: ‘Equity will not decree the specific .performance of a contract unless its terms are clear and capable of ascertainment from the instrument itself’, citing Hammer v. McEldowney, 46 Pa. 334 , and Reilly v. Gautschie, 174 Pa. 80 , 34 A. 576 . This court there said: ‘The essential basis of a decree for specific performance of a contract to convey real property is a definite present agreement in regard to a specific piece of land, clearly designated as present to the minds of both parties, and to be conveyed by one to the other. ... It is not the function of a court of equity to make a contract for the parties nor to supply any material stipulation thereof’: Albright v. Albright, 228 Pa. 552 , 77 A. 896 . See also 25 R. C. L., page 218, section 17.””
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.