Pierner v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1962
5 federal appellate · 7 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 Cleary v. Eckart · Sommerfield v. Flury · Poneitowcki v. Harres · Knipfer v. Shaw · Scharine v. Huebsch
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a proper instruction in this respect the verdict is insufficient to support a judgment against Pierner or for contribution and there must be a new trial as to his negligence, unless the evidence would not, under proper instructions, support a finding of negligence by him as to control of the can” (p. 473.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierner v. Mann
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.