Williams v. Dovell’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Bruce v. Dyer (1987), Madison National Bank v. Newrath (1971)
2 district · 28 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 Darrow v. . Calkins · Duncan v. Suhy · Eder v. Rothamel · Chew v. Chew · Ottaviano v. Lorenzo
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * With that exception [purchase for value without notice], the legal title of individual partners is an empty technicality. The legal title to partnership property cannot be conveyed, devised or inherited as the individual property of any of the partners either as joint tenant or as tenant in common. In so far as the beneficial individual interests of the partners are concerned, it is immaterial whether they are regarded technically as joint tenants or as tenants in common. The partner’s; interest in the partnership, which is a personal chose in action, is all that he may assign or bequeath, and upon his death intestate that interest passes to his administrator as personal property.” 202 Md. 357 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A partner is co-owner with his partners of specific partnership property holding as a tenant in partnership.””
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.