Pearce v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 585 · 1885
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1952
6 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 Ambler v. Whipple
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However the question may be decided, whether one partner may by his own mere will dissolve a partnership formed for a definite purpose or period, it is clear that upon such a dissolution one partner cannot appropriate to himself all the partnership assets, or turn oyer the ■share of his partner to another with whom he proposes to form a new partnership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karrick v. Hannaman
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.