Meagher v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is undoubtedly a general rule that when two or more persons acquire mining property solely or principally for the purpose of extracting the ores, in the absence of an express intention to enter into a general commercial partnership, in the conduct of their mining operations, the relation existing between them in the transaction of their common business is a mining partnership, and not a general partnership-. 1 Bates, Partn. § 163.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lamont v. Reynolds

2. “If the land is partnership property, the title is vested in the partnership, and is defined, governed, and controlled by well-settled principles of partnership law; and this is true whether the title is vested in one of the partners, or in all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grosboll v. Grosboll

3. ““It was decided, after many doubts, that the mining partner had a right either to relinquish ór transfer his share without the consent of his co-partners.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lamont v. Reynolds