King v. . Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1983 · most notably Meinhard v. Salmon (1928), Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 83 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.
Relationships
Relies on Marie v. . Garrison · Chester v. . Dickerson · Matter of Staten Island Rapid Transit Co. · Dyckman v. . Valiente · Guernsey v. . Miller
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We consider these objections to be untenable, and some of them too frivolous to merit serious consideration. A sufficient consideration is afforded to it by the mutual promises of the respective parties to contribute equally to the capital required to carry out the contemplated enterprise and their agreement to share equally in the profits and advantages expected to accrue therefrom. It is entirely immaterial whether this agreement constituted a partnership in a technical legal sense, or whether it was a joint enterprise to be conducted by the parties for their mutual benefit. So far as their rights and liabilities are concerned' in this case, the result is the same, and rests upon the express terms of the agreement, and they are now to be enforced upon the principles applying to partnership transactions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Patrick
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.