Davidson v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
December 1953
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shoemake v. Davis · Yeager v. Graham · Associated Piping & Engineering Co. v. Jones · Huston v. Cox · Boreing v. Wilson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sharing of losses? Yes, one will lose his money and the other his work if the project is a failure. Sharing of profits? Yes, if the venture is successful and there are profits to be shared. There is nothing in the decided cases nor in the textbooks which says that the sharing of profits and losses in a partnership or joint adventure must be the same in kind. Fairly considered, we think the agreement between plaintiff and defendant implied such a sharing of profits and losses, and was essentially a joint adventure.” (p. 912.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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