Hoffman v. Gosnell’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably United States v. Kis (1981), Union Trust Co. v. Biggs (1927)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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 Fuller v. J. B. Brewster & Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defeasance is an instrument executed at the same time with some other deed, and intended to defeat the force of the latter upon the performance of certain conditions expressed therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sachs
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.