270 Pa. Super. 207 - Manning v. Capelli’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 302 Pa. Super. 492 - Bortner v. Gladfelter (1982), 523 So. 2d 1042 - Tatum v. Schering Corp. (1988)
27 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 Pezzulli v. D'Ambrosia · Gaydos v. Domabyl · Lewis v. Hunlock's Creek & Muhlenburg Turnpike 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘... [ejxists between parent and child when a child receives from a parent services or maintenance or gifts with such reasonable frequency as to lead to an expectation of future enjoyment of these services, maintenance, or gifts. The term ‘family relation’ as thus used does not embrace its comprehensive definition, but is confined to certain phases of family relation between the persons named in the act. ... Before there can be any recovery in damages by one in that relation for the negligent death of another in the same relation, there must be a pecuniary loss.’ ” (Citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is settled beyond dispute that only persons standing in a “family relation” with the deceased, hereinbefore defined to require pecuniary loss, and statutorily authorized to maintain a wrongful death action as a result of the deceased’s death.... Where, as in the case before us, the persons seeking to share in the distribution are admittedly without standing, for want of pecuniary loss, to initiate a death action in regard to the deceased parent, it would frustrate the statutory purpose of compensating the very real damages suffered by the deceased’s minor, dependent children to hold that an adult, emancipated child is entitled to a per capita share of the death proceeds solely because under the intestacy laws emancipated children may inherit intestate property of a deceased parent. The right to recover damages should not be more extensive than the right to bring the initial action. The intestate scheme for distributing proceeds is necessarily limited by the parameters of the right of action created by the Wrongful Death Statute.”
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.