Devlin v. Rockey’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.2d 266 · 1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2006
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Lanier v. Bowdoin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is implicit in Section 42 of the [Uniform Partnership Act], in the use of the words `unless otherwise agreed,' that partners may provide by agreement the amounts to be paid to retiring partners by the surviving partnership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tropeano v. Dorman
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.