Lipinski v. Lipinski’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2002
16 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 Thanos v. Thanos · National Surety Co. v. Winslow · Venier v. Forbes · Anderson v. . Lemon · McAlpine v. Millen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can find nothing in this agreement to indicate that the acquisition of additional real estate was one of the objects or purposes of the business.... The undertaking involved was definitely that of a fishing enterprise and not one involving the acquisition, improvement, or development of real estate. It was limited to four years, and there was no provision for any renewal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the relationship between the parties was fiduciary in character ... but that such relationship and its obligations were limited to the enterprise in which they were mutually engaged.”
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.