Foshee v. Simkin’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1984
7 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 Lagarde v. Dabon · Heatwole v. Stansbury · 7 La. Ann. 152 - Delamour v. Roger · Sparrow v. Sparrow · Simpson v. Normand
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In passing on the issues of this appeal, we will first determine the existence vel non of a partnership. We have in our law four specific types of partnership, viz: A universal partnership, as provided for in LSA C.C. Article 2829; a particular partnership, as provided for in LSA C.C. Article 2835; a partnership in commendum, as provided for in LSA C.C. Article 2839; and lastly, a commercial partnership, as provided for in LSA C.C. Article 2852. All of these partnerships must be evidenced by a written contract, except that of a commercial partnership, and it appears that inasmuch as no written contract was presented evidencing a partnership that no such contract exists. Therefore, if a partnership existed between the parties during the period of time involved, the only kind that we can further consider is that of a commercial partnership; * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Partnership is a synallagmatic and commutative contract made between two or more persons for the mutual participation in the profits which may accrue from property, credit, skill or industry, furnished in determined proportions by the parties.””
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.