Hoffman v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 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 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Industrial Commission v. Rowe · Henderson v. RSI, INC. · L.E.L. Construction v. Goode · Eckhardt v. Village Inn (Vicorp) · Ruffing v. Lincicome
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his reduction for the periodic benefits granted by the federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance act shall not exceed the reduction specified in subpara-graph (I) of this paragraph (c) for the periodic disability benefits payable to an individual....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such as the nature of the problem addressed by the legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Borghesi
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.