Mann v. McDermott’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 1968
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tillinghast v. Harrop · Messier v. Rainville · Fuller v. Mowry · Baumgartner v. Seidel · White v. Almy
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on'the part of the promisee and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can.be avoided only, by enforcement of its promise.””
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.