Mannix v. Baumgardner’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Stacy v. Burke (1970), O'Hara v. O'Hara (1945)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Soehnlein v. Pumphrey · Semmes v. Worthington · Fitzpatrick v. Michael · Wilks v. Burns · Neal v. Hamilton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testamentary document is nothing more than a part of the contract, which has been determined by mutual stipulations, controlling the mind of the testator____ If the proof is sufficient, the Court decrees a specific performance of the contract; the will being examined merely to ascertain the terms of such contract, of which it has become a part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Unitas v. Temple
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.