Manley v. Manley’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 Woods v. Interstate Realty Co. · Railroad Companies v. Schutte · Commonwealth v. Novak · Commonwealth v. Almeida · Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy v. Exeter
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a decision rests on two or more grounds, none can be relegated to the category of “obiter dictum.” Nor is a decision of the court on a certain point dictum, merely because something else was found in the end which disposed of the whole matter. The fact that the same result may be reached by either of two rulings of a court does not make either “dictum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the counsel (and she had many)...thought [the wife] was of unsound mind, it was [counsel's] duty to call this belief to the attention of the court, and ask for the appointment of a guardian, and if the master or the court thought she was of unsound mind, a guardian should have been appointed. See Pa.R.C.P. 2056(c) [-](d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a decision rests on two or more grounds equally valid, none may be relegated to the inferior status of obiter dictum.”
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.