Howard v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips of Fairfax, Inc. v. Chillum Terrace Ltd. Partnership (1974), Mercury Investment Co. v. F.W. Woolworth Co. (1985)
7 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Watford Oil & Gas Co. v. Shipman · Lewis v. Ocean Navigation & Pier Co. · Stewart v. Tennant · Zeigler v. Brenneman · Gradle v. Warner
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The breach of the lessee’s 'covenant, for which a forfeiture is provided, makes the lease voidable, not at the election of the lessee, but only at the election of the lessor, and any act on the part of the lessor, by word or deed, with knowledge of what has been done, which signifies his intention to affirm the lease, is conclusive evidence of a waiver of the forfeiture.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Neither tenant in common has, by virtue of his relationship to his cotenant in common, any authority to act as agent for his companion in either giving a lease or enforcing a forfeiture thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins v. Klein
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.