Beard v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 57 Md. App. 190 - Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. (1984), Bruce v. Dyer (1987)
1 district · 42 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 Brenner v. Plitt · Reed v. Reed · Brell v. Brell · Collier v. Collier · Atlas Realty Co. v. Galt
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the lower court that there was no partnership. Mrs. Beard was inexperienced in law and business and unfamiliar with the difference between stock ownership in a corporation and membership in a partnership. She may have thought she and her husband were, in a more than figurative sense, ‘partners’ in the cab business and in the tavern business. But the elements of a partnership are lacking, even in her own testimony. ‘The main test of whether or not a partnership exists is the intention of the parties to create a partnership.’ Collier v. Collier, 182 Md. 82, 88 , 32 A. 2d 469, 471 . The burden of proving a partnership is upon the party who asserts it. Id. The intention, at least on the husband’s part, to create a partnership is wholly lacking and is negatived in words and in deeds, e.g., in his liquor license and his income tax returns.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.