Manning v. Sifford’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2014
9 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 Prentice v. North American Title Guaranty Corp. · 22 Cal. 3d 1 - Davis v. Air Technical Industries, Inc. · 2 Cal. 3d 448 - Wheelright v. County of Marin · 73 Cal. App. 2d 284 - Kompf v. Morrison · 266 Cal. App. 2d 831 - Ruth v. Lytton Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[The] appeal require[d] resolution of one issue: is an agent who is required to bring a cross action against a wrongdoer who caused injury to the principal entitled to recover attorney’s fees for helping to successfully secure redress against that wrongdoer” and “an-swerefd] [the] question affirmatively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.