Fedderson v. Goode’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Lowell Staats Mining Co. v. Philadelphia Electric Co. (1989), Williams v. Reed (1957)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Commercial Lumber Co. v. Nelson · Miller v. Farmers Bank & Trust Co. · Heckman v. Manning · Beatty v. Resler · Duncan v. Capehart
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The chief characteristic of a joint adventure is joint and not a several profit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f action be brought against a single defendant for the entire claim and the evidence discloses his sole liability, or the litigation be settled on that basis, suit cannot thereafter be sustained against another on the theory of his joint liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.