129 W. Va. 487 - Pownall v. Cearfoss’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 177 W. Va. 592 - Price v. Halstead (1987), 149 W. Va. 65 - Nesbitt v. Flaccus (1964)
22 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 Horne v. Holley · Keiswetter v. Rubenstein · Nelson v. Carrington · Cranmer v. McSwords · Fletcher v. Fletcher
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A joint enterprise or adventure frequently exists in business undertakings. It is less amalgamating than a partnership but partakes of the nature thereof. Ohio Valley Builders’ Supply Co. v. Construction Co., 108 W. Va. 354 , 151 S. E. 1 . Such adventure is sometimes called a limited partnership; not limited as to liability, but as to its scope and duration. Ross v. Willett, 76 Hun 211 , 27 N. Y. S. 785. Distinguished from the routine of partnerships and other business associations, single or isolated undertakings usually constitute the background of joint adventures. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A joint adventure is created where two or ■ more persons undertake a special and particular enterprise, involving some activity beyond that of joint ownership, and where there is no intent to enter into an actual partnership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.