Mann v. Pulliam’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1967
23 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 American Brewing Ass'n v. Talbot · Paulscak v. Hoebler · Wecker Ex Rel. Wecker v. Grafeman-McIntosh Ice Cream Co. · Grein v. Yohon
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sole issue on the question of liability is whether the respondents can be adjudged guilty of negligence in maintaining the steps and walk as described in the evidence, that is, having the five wooden steps painted gray and the lower step and walk of concrete material a natural color, or unpainted, leaving the lower step and walk a different color than that of the five upper steps. “We are of the opinion that this state of facts did not prove actionable negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Dovre
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.