Hoffman v. Hock’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Peper v. Princeton University Board of Trustees (1978), Paper Mill Playhouse v. Millburn Township (1984)
93 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 Oldfield v. New Jersey Realty Co. · Bass v. Allen Home Improvement Co. · 18 N.J. Eq. 13 - Keyport & Middletown Point Steamboat Co. v. Farmers Transportation Co. of Keyport · Raymond v. Township of Teaneck · Flagg v. Johansen
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[It is] one of the cardinal rules of statutory construction that full force and effect must be given, if possible, to every word, clause and sentence of a statute. Oldfield v. New Jersey Realty Co., 1 N.J. 63, 68 (1948). A construction that will render any part of a statute inoperative, superfluous or meaningless, is to be avoided.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Court is] enjoined to interpret and enforce the legislative will as written, and not according to some supposed unexpressed intention.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a construction that will render any part of a statute inoperative, superfluous or meaningless, is to be avoided.”
3 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.