Kelley v. Bourne’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1927
5 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 Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · Marx v. . McGlynn · White v. . Howard · De Witt v. Smith · Kain v. Gibboney
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Partnership, often called co-partnership, is usually defined to be a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding that there shall he a communion of the profits thereof between them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Olds
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.