Manley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Lowery v. Echostar Satellite Corp. (2007), Head v. McCracken (2004)
101 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 Wornick Co. v. Casas · Carmichael v. Beller · Kluver v. Weatherford Hospital Authority · Runyon v. Reid · Spirgis v. Circle K Stores, Inc.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court claims for itself plenary, independent and non-deferential authority to re-examine a trial court's legal rulings.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the existence of an attorney-client relationship, (2) breach of a lawyer's duty to the client, (8) facts constituting the alleged negligence, (4) a causal nexus between the lawyer's negligence and the resulting injury (or damage) and (5) but for the lawyer's conduct, the client would have succeeded in the action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“appellate tribunals must equally bear an affirmative duty to test all evidentiary material tendered in summary process for its legal sufficiency to support the relief sought by the movant.”
4 later decisions 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.