Ingram v. Deere’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In Re Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas, Subsidiary, L.P. (2009), Intercontinental Group Partnership v. KB Home Lone Star L.P. (2009)
1 federal appellate · 37 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Helvering v. Clifford · Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank · Meehan v. Valentine · Schlumberger Technology Corp. v. Swanson · Osterberg v. Peca
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) receipt or right to receive a share of profits of the business; (2) expression of an intent to be partners in the business; (3) participation or right to participate in control of the business; (4) agreement to share or sharing: (A) losses of the business; or (B) liability for claims by third parties against the business; and (5) agreement to contribute or contributing money or property to the business.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the receipt or right to receive a share of profits: (A) as repayment of a debt, by installments or otherwise; (B) as payment of wages or other compensation to an employee or independent contractor; (C) as payment of rent; (D) as payment to a former partner, surviving spouse or representative of a deceased or disabled partner, or transferee of a partnership interest; (E) as payment of interest or other charge on a loan, regardless of whether the amount of payment varies with the profits of the business, and including a direct or indirect present or future ownership interest in collateral or rights to income, proceeds, or increase in value derived from collateral; or (F) as payment of consideration for the sale of a business or other property by installments or otherwise; (2) co-ownership of property, whether in the form of joint tenancy, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entireties, joint property, community property, or part ownership, whether combined with sharing of profits from the property; (3) sharing or having a right to share gross returns or revenues, regardless of whether the persons sharing the gross returns or revenues have a com mon or joint interest in the property from which the returns or revenues are derived; or (4) ownership of mineral property under a joint operating agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On January 1, 2010, TRPA will expire, and the [Texas Business Organizations Code (“TBOC”) ] will apply to all partnerships, regardless of their formation date. Tex.Rev.Civ. Stat. art. 6132b-11.03. TRPA and the TBOC’s rules for determining partnership formation are substantially the same. Compare Tex. Bus. Orgs.Code § 152.002, with Tex.Rev. Civ. Stat. art. 6132b-2.03.”
2 later decisions 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.