Hoffa v. Saxbe’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978), Marino v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1976)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 4161 · 5 U.S.C. § 7324
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · United States v. O'Brien · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Procunier v. Martinez · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And the [pardon] power is most importantly limited, as are all powers conferred by the Constitution, by the Bill of Rights which expressly reserved to the 'individual' certain fundamental rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hand v. Scott · State v. Hunter
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.