Lance v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Stendardo Stendardo Stendardo v. Federal National Mortgage Association, Williams v. Murdoch (1964)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Sinking Fund Commissioners of Phila. v. Phila. · Strauss v. W. H. Strauss Co., Inc. (Et Al.) · Myers v. Borough of South Bethlehem · Federal Insurance v. Robinson · Lance v. Mann
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is elementary that judgment settles everything involved in the right to recover, not only all matters that were raised, but those which might have been raised. The cause of action is merged in the judgment which then evidences a new obligation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.