Hoffmann v. Alside, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 822 · 1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Christopher W. v. Portsmouth School Committee (1989), Gaf Corporation v. Transamerica Insurance Company Gaf Corporation (1981)
16 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Huffman · Robert W. Johnston v. H. G. Cartwright, Kiowa Corporation, Walter Brown and H. G. Cartwright v. Robert W. Johnston · New York, C. & St. L. R. Co. v. Vardaman · United States v. Bedrettin Y.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]egal prejudice is not visited upon [defendants] because they might have to try their case to a jury rather than to the court.”
2 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.