Cunningham v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1986
13 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 62 Ohio St. 236 - Andres v. Morgan · Continental Gin Co. v. Sullivan · Reed Bros. Co. v. First Nat. Bank of Weeping Water. · Jones v. First Nat. Bank of Oktaha
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 a corporation has been formed of members of a partnership subsequent to the incurring of a debt and the assets of the partnership have been assigned to the corporation for the continuance of the business, it will be presumed that the corporation assumed the partnership debts, and it will be prima facie liable therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Such a partnership may be dissolved by the agreement of the members, or by the act of any partner alone proceeding in accordance with his own will and pleasure and at a moment’s notice’..””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houston v. McCrory
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.