McCann v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Hayes v. Muller (1963), 950 So. 2d 641 - Scheffler v. Adams and Reese, LLP (2007)
2 federal appellate · 75 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 Daily States Pub. Co. v. Uhalt · Consaul v. Cummings · Fletcher v. Fletcher · Daspit v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Ludeau v. Avoyelles Cotton 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relations between joint adventures are assimilated to those of partners inter se. Ludeau v. Avoyelles Cotton Co., [ 164 La. 275 , 113 So. 846 ] supra. As respects the character of the business undertaken, the principal difference between a partnership and a joint adventure `is that, while a co-partnership is ordinarily formed for the transaction of a general business of a particular kind, a joint adventure is usually, but not necessarily, limited to a single transaction, although the business of conducting it to a successful termination may continue for a number of years.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“where an attorney retained in a case employs or procures the employment of another to assist him, as regards the division of fee, the agreement constitutes a joint venture or special partnership.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Attorneys who jointly undertake to prosecute or to defend a lawsuit are entitled, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, to share equally in the compensation, and it is immaterial which attorney furnishes the most labor or skill....”
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.