Cann v. Mann Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1990
1 district · 8 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 Chase v. Fitzgerald · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Hayes · Regan v. Davis · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Zebe · Homiewicz v. Orlowski
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever death is occasioned by unlawful violence or negligence, and no suit is brought by the party injured to recover damages during his or her life, the widow or widower of any such deceased person, or, if there is no widow or widower, the personal representatives, may maintain an action for and. recover damages for the death and loss thus occasioned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turcol v. Jenkins
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.