Williams v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1966
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Way
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The corpus of the assets is partnership property, and neither partner separately has anything in that corpus; the interest of each is only his share of what remains after the payment of all partnership debts and all accounts between the partners are settled.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams
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.