Manoukian v. Tomasian’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 211 · 1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Lutwak v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Funk v. United States · Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. · Bank of Columbia v. Okely
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“British statutes antedating the Declaration of Independence have almost universally been regarded as having the effect of judicial precedent, rather than legislative enactment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, whether we approach this case as one requiring construction of a statute or as one calling for application for common law principles, we think the result would be the same — a result based on reason and justice. We recognize that the old British statutes that have been received in the District of Columbia must be considered well established rules of law, not to be varied without good reason. Nor do we lightly undertake the task of excepting a particular case from the general rule of a statute — old or new. But here we think the course to be taken is plain: to exclude this case from the literal wording * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Estate of Pye“The common law, all British statutes in force in Maryland on February 27, 1801, the principles of equity and admiralty, all general Acts of Congress not locally inapplicable in the District of Columbia, and all Acts of Congress by their terms applicable to the District of Columbia and to other places under the jurisdiction of the United States, in force in the District of Columbia on March 3, 1901, shall remain in force except in so far as the same are inconsistent with, or are replaced by, subsequent legislation of Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.