Manning v. Wiscombe’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 1311 · 1974
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Audit Services, Inc. v. Rolfson (1981), Teamster's Local Health and Welfare Fund v. Kohn Beverage Company (1984)
14 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Lewis v. Benedict Coal Corp. · Filtrol Corp. v. Loose
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trustee here stands as a third-party beneficiary of the collective bargaining agreement and his rights vested upon the signing of the contract and the creation of the trust fund. The primary parties cannot modify by subsequent conduct the express terms of an agreement without the consent of a third-party beneficiary whose rights have vested.” Manning v. Wiscombe, supra, 498 F.2d at 1313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cappa v. Wiseman
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.