Lanier v. Bowdoin’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Klein v. Weiss (1978), Riviera Congress Associates ex rel. Lewy v. Yassky (1966)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Levy v. Leavitt · Lanier v. Bowdoin · Duffy v. . Burton
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If complete, as between the partners, the agreement so made controls.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reading of article 8 of the Partnership Law, Consol. Laws, c. 39, makes it clear that limited partners may not interfere in any manner with the conduct or control of the partnership business. They are entitled only to `inspect and copy' the partnership books, to demand a formal account of partnership affairs, to participate in `dissolution and winding up' and to receive a share of the [partnership] profits'. By adhering to this arrangement, the limited partner is exempted from general liability and places `his capital alone at the peril of the business.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 804 [Distribution of Assets] Upon the winding up of a limited partnership, the assets shall be distributed as follows: ****** (3) except as provided in the partnership agreement, to partners first for the return of their contributions and secondly respecting their partnership interests, in the proportions in which the partners share in distributions.”
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.