Smith v. Maine’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2009
9 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 Karrick v. Hannaman · Hulbert v. . Clark · Eisenlord v. . Clum · 14 E.H. Smith 330 - Reed v. . McCord · Gilmore v. . Ham
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.
“A partner who has not fully and fairly performed the partnership agreement on his part has no standing in a court of equity to enforce any rights under the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[al refusal ... to act{ ] and perform functions as [a partner], as distinguished from mere neglect of duty, may be considered a repudiation of the [business entity].”
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.