Mannella v. Pittsburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Philadelphia Housing Authority v. Turner Construction Co. (1941), Broadway & Ninety-Sixth Street Realty Co. v. Loew's Inc. (1958)
21 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 Filbert v. City of Philadelphia · Canuso v. Philadelphia · Tate-Jones & Co. v. Union Electric Steel Co. · Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. v. Stanfield · Rabinowitz v. Silverman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While an offer to pay a sum of money to compromise a dispute is not admissable in evidence to prove that the sum offered was admitted to be due, the distinct admission of a fact is not be excluded because it was accompanied by an offer to compromise the suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ordinarily a contractor is not responsible for defects caused by acts or orders of the owner during the progress of the work.”
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.