Manter v. Manter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Michaud v. Wawruck (1988), Horton v. Meskill (1982)
29 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · In re Juvenile Appeal · Lettieri v. American Savings Bank
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assigns the court discretionary power to permit intervention upon motion by any interested third party or parties.... A prerequisite to that intervention, however, is the existence of a controversy.... Intervention is a device which enables one who was not originally a party to an action to become such a party on his own initiative.... The intervenor's posture is derivative; he assumes his role only by virtue of an action already shaped by the original parties. He must, therefore, take his controversy as he finds it and may not use his own claims to restyle or resuscitate their action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court . . . may allow any interested third party or parties to intervene upon motion.”
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.