Mannweiler v. LaFlamme’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Napoletano v. CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut, Inc. (1996), Torosyan v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1995)
136 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 Cablevision Co. v. Motion Picture Ass'n of America, Inc. · Venturi v. California · Sturman v. Socha · Gaudio v. Gaudio · Shell Oil Co. v. City of Santa Monica
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a declaratory judgment action . . . is to secure an adjudication of rights where there is a substantial question in dispute or a substantial uncertainty of legal relations between the parties.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]urisdiction of the subject matter is a question of law and cannot be waived or conferred by consent. . . .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he judicial authority will not render declaratory judgments upon the complaint of any person . . . where the judicial authority shall be of the opinion that the parties should be left to seek redress by some other form of procedure. . . .”
5 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.