Bell v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2014
2 federal appellate · 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 Edgcomb v. Clough · Jackson v. Hooper · Beaver v. Slane · Dunham v. Loverock · McIntosh v. Ropp
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.
“in so far as equity is concerned, the rights of the parties [to a joint venture] are controlled by the same principles as are those of partners”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'As to third persons, [individuals] may subject themselves to liability as partners by a course of dealing or by their acts and declarations.'”
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.