Porter v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 853 · 1942
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2012
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 118
Relies on McDuffie v. Walker · New Orleans & N. E. R. v. Louisiana Const. & Imp. Co. · W. F. Potts Son & Co. v. Cochrane · Bowersock Mills & Power Co. v. Joyce · Cochrane v. W. F. Potts Son & Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““«- * * whatever in law a joint adventurer, this ease law hybrid of recent origin and undetermined connotation may be, and however difficult to distinguish in particular cases between joint adventures and partnerships, some courts having gone so far as to say that they are subject to the same rules and principles, it is as fundamental to the existence of a joint adventure as it is to the existence of a partnership, that there be a contract between the parties that they are or are to be joint adventurers. As in partnerships, whatever the case as to outsiders, as between the members the relationship of joint adventurers is a matter of intent and arises only where they intend and agree to associate themselves as such. 30 Am.Jur. page 681. It being established here both upon the findings and upon the facts the record discloses, that Cooke never intended to be and never was, either a partner or a joint adventurer with the plaintiffs, the whole theory of recovery based upon the contention that he was, falls to the ground. * * -»»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyman v. Regenstein
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.