Mandell and Wright v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972), In the Interest of B.L.D. (2003)
6 federal appellate · 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 Maryland Casualty Co. v. Cushing · Lindgren v. United States · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · Thigpen v. Locke · Hartford Accident Indemnity Co of Hartford v. Southern Pac 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appreciated the effect of what [he] was doing and understood the nature and consequences of [his] acts and the business [he] was transacting.”
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.