Hoffman v. Celebrezze’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 833 · 1969
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Nemaizer v. Baker (1986), Daou v. Harris (1984)
79 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Swift & Co. v. United States · Rock Island Co v. United States · United States v. Thayer-West Point Hotel Co. · United States v. Goltra
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides for extraordinary relief which may be granted only upon an adequate showing of exceptional circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is generally held that neither ignorance nor carelessness on the part of an attorney will provide grounds for 60(b) relief.”
4 later decisions 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.