109 Mich. App. 786 - Jaffe v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2001
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“The purposes of § 115, [New York's version of § 620.26] ... were reasonably plain. General partners need not join limited partners in an action by the partnership; ordinarily limited partners may not sue since this will interfere with the management by the general partners; a suitor against the partnership need not join a limited partner; indeed, he may not do so if the partnership be solvent. The words say all this and say it well. But they do not have to be read as saying that a limited partner cannot bring an action on behalf of the partnership when the general partners have disabled themselves or wrongfully refused; and, although they could so be read, we see no sufficient reason for doing so when in quite similar situations the cestui que trust or the preferred stockholder is allowed to do exactly that.”
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.