Mangus v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1999
6 district · 11 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 Fish v. Liley · Moffatt v. Tenney · Hayes v. Williams · Goldblatt v. Chase · Denver City Tramway Co. v. Cowan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since mitigating cireumstances relating to the act itself do not justify an assessment 'of damages less than compensatory, it is not reasonable to suppose that the aggravating circumstances contemplated by the statute are such as would justify an assessment of damages more than compensatory.... [Wie are constrained to hold that the words 'mitigating or aggravating circumstances attending such wrongful act' ... contemplate cireumstances not relating to the wrongful act itself, but such as affect the actual damages suffered by the surviving party entitled to sue, either by way of diminishing or enhancing the same.”
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.