Pettingill v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1953
11 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 Wheeler v. Arnold
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is but a single partnership transaction, one joint venture, which is fully closed, we think one partner may maintain an action against the other for his share of the profits of ■ that single transaction, and that in such a case there is no necessity of a formal accounting between parties. Sikes v. Work, 6 Gray (Mass.) 433 ; Wheeler v. Arnold, 30 Mich. 304 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reiser v. Johnston
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.