Howell v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1985
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Village Mills Co. v. Houston Oil Co. · American Nat. Bank of Wichita Falls v. Haggerton · Talley v. Lamar County · Speake v. Prewitt · 54 Tex. Civ. App. 507 - Allen v. Fleck
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.
“the general rule is that, in suits by partnerships, all partners must be plaintiffs, and, where one partner refuses to join, he should be made a party defendant.”
2 later decisions 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.