Manning v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1973
2 federal appellate · 10 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 McKinney v. Croan · Elder Chevrolet Co. v. Bailey County Motor Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears to be á settled rule that a purchaser of property from one who has acquired possession thereof by theft, acquires no title thereto. * * “ * * * and it is well settled that one in rightful possession of personal property may maintain an action for its recovery against a thief or one holding under him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beauchamp v. Nichols““Regardless of what has been said above, Manning is now and was at the time of the trial the holder of a certificate of title issued to him by the State Highway Department, and no other party to this suit has shown a better title to this automobile.” (1. c. 167.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poteet v. Simmons
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.