Hoffman v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The only ground for allowing the introduction of evidence of a condition existing some time prior to the time in issue is where there is no evidence of the actual condition at the time in question and where the condition is not a changing one but one which it might reasonably be considered would continue to exist. [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. P.N. Cedar, Inc. v. D & G Shake Co.