Bagley v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. (1886), Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co. (1941)
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘The object of commercial partnership is profit.. This is the motive upon which men enter into the relation. The only legitimate beneficial consequence of continuing a partnership is the making of profits. Tbe most direct and legitimate injurious consequence which can follow upon an unauthorized dissolution of a partnership is the loss of profits. Unless that loss can be made up to the injured party, it is idle to say that any obligation is imposed by a contract to continue a partnership for a fixed period. The loss of profits is one of the common grounds, and the amount of profits lost one of the common measures of the damages to he given upon a breach of contract.” . '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“profits, even with the aid of knowing the.amount of the past profits. This difficulty is inherent, in”
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.