Hoffman Construction Co. v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Wenzel v. Morris Distributing Co. (1970), American Housing Trust, III v. Jones (1997)
19 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 Delaware River Quarry & Construction Co. v. Bethlehem & Nazareth Passenger Railway Co. · Wolff Dryer Co. v. Bigler · Williams v. Golden
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acts which were done in this State were not a mere incident of plaintiff’s corporate existence, but were the performance of the very function for which the corporation was organized. The fact that part of its capital, as represented by wages, trucks, tools, etc., was not permanently invested here is of no consequence”: [citation omitted]. Id. at 386 , 200 Atl. at 580 .”
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.