United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 879 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2010
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242
Relies on Williams v. United States · Griffin v. State of Maryland · George T. Adams v. Southern California First National Bank, Willie O. Hampton and Mattie Hampton, Individually and on Behalf of All Otherssimilarly Situated v. The Bank of California, National Association, a California Bankingcorporation · United States v. Delerme · Bichel Optical Laboratories, Inc. v. Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“authorized on a continuing and full-time basis to search actively for criminals and ... to use the powers of the state when their search [was] successful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The acts charged occurred while [the defendants] were on duty . . . while possessing the same powers as city police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.