Hoffman v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2006
2 district · 17 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 Broadway National Bank v. Adams · 121 Cal. App. 675 - San Diego Trust & Savings Bank v. Heustis · Hardenburgh v. Blair · 134 N.J. Eq. 432 - Chelsea-Wheeler Coal Co. v. Marvin · Ward v. Marie
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it seems judicious to leave any further pronouncement to the Legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The second contention is that the policy of the law is to hold invalid a `spendthrift trust' (whether or not created by the settlor for his own benefit) to the extent that it is interposed to deprive a wife of support or alimony, and offers in support American Law Institute Restatement of the Law, Trusts, vol. 1, sec. 157 ( a ); 1 Scott on Trusts. secs. 147, 157.1; Griswold on Spendthrift Trusts (1947), pp. 387 et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That the policy of this State is in favor of exemptions from civil process in cases of public pension funds appears from an analysis of legislative treatment thereof,”
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.