Manning v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1971
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 Welch v. Durand · Judd v. Ballard · Moebus v. Becker · Daniels v. Street
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one is doing a lawful act — or an act not mischievous, rash, reckless, or foolish, and naturally liable to result in injury to others — he is not responsible for damages resulting therefrom by accident or casualty, while he is in the exercise of such care and caution as a prudent man would observe, under the circumstances surrounding him, to avoid injury to others; but he is answerable for damages resulting from negligence, or a want of such care and caution on his part.” . ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Askay v. Maloney““The test of liability is, not whether the injury was accidentally inflicted, but whether the defendants were free from blame.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Askay v. Maloney
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.