Patrick v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 411 · 1893
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Burton v. United States (1906), Selover, Bates & Co. v. Walsh (1912)
25 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Brooks v. Martin · Cobb v. . Knapp · Welch v. Goodwin
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one partner is present in sole charge of the business, while the other is at a distance, in order to sustain a sale of the absent partner’s interest, it must be made to appear that the price paid approximates a fair consideration for the thing purchased, and that all the information in the possession of the purchaser necessary to enable the seller to form a sound judgment of the value of what he sells, should be communicated by- the buyer to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.