Westcott v. Gilman’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Campagna v. Market Street Railway Co. (1944), 74 Cal. App. 765 - Wise v. Radis (1925)
4 federal appellate · 45 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 Hendy v. March · Chapman v. Hughes · County of San Luis Obispo v. Farnum · Smith v. Schultz · Hunter v. Martin
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But while thus the element of profit sharing does not alone and of itself establish a partnership, it is an essential element of every partnership, and it is an element present in this contract. * * *”
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.