Congdon v. Olds’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1948
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Bissell v. · Duryea v. Burt · Settembre v. Putnam · Jones v. Clark · Anaconda Copper Mining Co. v. Butte & Boston Mining Co.
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.
““But, in case of an ordinary mining partnership, something more will be required to raise the presumption of liability arising from persons holding themselves out to the world as partners than would be necessary in the case of an ordinary partnership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There may be a partnership in the working of a mine, subject to the rules relating to an ordinary partnership in trade. And this relation may be constituted either by express stipulation or by implication deducted from the acts of 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.