Mann v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2009
2 district · 12 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 Jackson v. Stancil · Lange v. Nelson-Ryan Flight Service, Inc. · Bruce v. O'Neal Flying Service, Inc. · Smith v. . Whitley · Morrison v. Hutchins
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any recovery for wrongful death must be based on actionable negligence under the general rules of tort liability. Tn a case involving an airplane crash the doctrine of res ipsa, loquitur does not apply, “it being common knowledge that airplanes do fall without fault of the pilot.” Furthermore, there must be a causal connection between the negligence complained of and the injury inflicted.’ Jackson v. Stancil, 253 N.C. 291 , 116 S.E. 2d 817 ; Bruce v. Flying Service, 231 N.C. 181 , 56 S.E. 2d 560 ; Smith v. Whitley, 223 N.C. 534 , 27 S.E. 2d 442 .””
1 later decision 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.