Jack Manning and Clara Ann Manning v. Altec, Inc., Jack Manning and Clara Ann Manning v. Mobile Aerial Towers, Inc., Jack Manning and Clara Ann Manning v. Mobile Aerial Towers, Inc., and Altec, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 127 · 1973
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Donovan v. Penn Shipping Co. (1977), Mickey Gregory, As Administrator of the Estate of Gerald Gregory,/cross v. Shelby County, Tennessee (2000)
37 federal appellate · 5 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 Dimick v. Schiedt · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Ratcliff v. Bruce · Grivetti v. Scott · Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the amount which, under the evidence in the case, was the maximum that the jury reasonably could find to be compensatory'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only where the quantum of damages found by the jury was clearly within 'the maximum limit of a reasonable range'.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘... the conjugal fellowship of husband and wife, and the right of each to the company, cooperation, affection and aid of the other in every conjugal relation.’ ... loss of consortium is a right of action separate from that of the husband for his damage, ... loss of services is a part of the loss of consortium, and ... both loss of services and loss of consortium must be proven by the wife.”
3 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.