Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1952
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 Robertson v. Burrell · Lyons v. Lyons · Foster v. Wilkinson · Stuart v. Robertson · Johnston v. Mohrabacker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . On the death of a partner, the surviving partners succeed to all the partnership property, whether real or personal, in trust for the purpose of liquidation, even though the deceased was appointed by agreement sole liquidator.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The surviving partner, upon the death of the other member of the partnership, is required to settle the affairs of the partnership without delay, and account to the executor of administrator for any funds due the estate of the deceased after the liquidation of the partnership. Held, that the right to require the settlement of the partnership affairs and to demand an accounting of the funds due the estate of the deceased partner is in the executor or administrator of the deceased partner alone.””
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.