Kennedy v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Loranger Construction Corp. v. E. F. Hauserman Co. · Bournewood Hospital, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination · 8 Mass. App. Ct. 740 - Covich v. Chambers · Shulkin v. Shulkin · Chartrand v. Riley
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rights and duties of the partners in relation to the partnership shall he determined, subject to any agreement between them, by the following rules: (1) Each partner shall he repaid that partner's contributions, whether by way of capital or advances to the partnership property and share equally in the profits and surplus remaining after all liabilities, including those to partners, are satisfied; and, except as provided in s. 178.12(2), each partner must contribute towards the losses, whether capital or otherwise, sustained by the partnership according to that partner's share in the profits. (5) All partners have equal rights in the management and conduct of the partnership business. (6) No partner is entitled to remuneration for acting in the partnership business, except that a surviving partner is entitled to reasonable compensation for his or her services in winding up the partnership affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bushard v. Reisman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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