Clark v. Sidway’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 682 · 1892
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1971 · most notably Dimick v. Schiedt (1935), Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert (1913)
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 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 Hilton v. Dickinson · Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. O'Connor · Thompson v. Butler · Pierre Berthold Alfred Bernondy and Marklat Thompson v. Edward Goldsmith
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Persons who jointly purchase land to hold it for a rise in value are not partners, but are tenants in common, and either party can .sue the other at law for reimbursement of allowances made by him on the joint account without there first having been a final settlement and the. striking of a balance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re McConnell
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.