Hofer v. Hofer’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2017
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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The legal operation and effect of a judgment must be ascertained by a construction and interpretation of it. This presents a question of law for the court. Judgments must be construed as a whole, and so as to give effect to every word and part. The entire judgment roll may be looked to for the purpose of interpretation. * * * The legal effect, rather than the mere language used, governs. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[a] trial court has the right to construe and clarify its own judgment, and such construction does not amount to a modification thereof.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rochus v. Thompson
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.