Goacher v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1959
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Fougner v. First National Bank of Chicago · Smith v. Knight · National Surety Co. v. T. B. Townsend Brick & Contracting 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Fougner v. First Nat. Bank of Chicago, 141 Ill. 124 , it was held that while sharing in profits is one test as to whether a partnership exists, that test is subject to the qualification that it must be a sharing in the profits as distinguished from making the profits the measure of compensation for services or for the •use of property or money in the business.””
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.