Hoffman v. Beer Drivers & Salesmen's Local Union No. 888’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 1268 · 1976
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Transgo, Inc. v. Ajac Transmission Parts Corp. (1985), Vuitton et Fils S.A. v. J. Young Enterprises, Inc. (1981)
82 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Shillitani v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(W)here the court supervises a continuing course of conduct and where as new facts develop additional supervisory action by the court is required, an appeal from the supervisory order does not divest the district court of jurisdiction to continue its supervision, even though in the course of that supervision the court acts upon or modifies the order from which the appeal is taken.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[W]here the district court ... has a continuing duty to maintain a status quo, and where, as the days pass, new facts are created by the parties and the maintenance of the status quo requires new action, ... an appeal from the supervisory order does not divest the court of jurisdiction ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a creature of statute and is not absolute in character.”
4 later decisions 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.