Hoffa v. Fitzsimmons’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2001
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962) · 26 U.S.C. § 6103 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Kosty v. Lewis · Kephart v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Linde · Gulf Oil Corp. v. Federal Power Commission
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Valid consideration for a contract cannot be presumed merely because two parties receive benefit from each other. Rather, a bargained for exchange is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffa v. Fitzsimmons“bargained that they would bear the loss in the event it turned out that the( ) facts were otherwise than as represented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffa v. Fitzsimmons“may appropriately be regarded as a significant legal and practical detriment to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoffa v. Fitzsimmons
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.