Martin v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Cohan v. Commissioner (1930), Dallas Aerospace, Inc. v. CIS Air Corp. (2003)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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 Giles v. Vette · Eastman v. Clark · Thillman v. Benton · Boston & Colorado Smelting Co. v. Smith · Austin, Nichols & Co. v. Neil
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Much ancient learning as to partnership is obsolete. Today only those who are partners between themselves may be charged for partnership debts by others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roethke v. Sanger“to assign to the trustees their interest in the firm,” and agree to resign if the trustees thought”
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.