Harris v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 487 - Carroll v. Caldwell (1957), 88 So. 2d 551 - Charles Sales Corp. v. Rovenger (1956)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 House v. Beak · Rainey v. Nance · Reeves, Stevens & Co. v. Ayers · Greenlee v. Steelsmith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is an association of individuals for producing oil or minerals from leasehold properties and the expenses of development and production and sale of the oil are divided or shared according to the holdings of the members of the association in the leasehold property, whether such division of expenses and profits is made with or without formal written or verbal agreement, a partnership exists. * * * In such a partnership, in the absence of a specific agreement, there is no delectus personae [the right to choose one’s partner] as exists in ordinary commercial partnerships. In a partnership each co-partner has the right to sell his interest in the firm property whenever and to whomever he may choose. By such a sale he ceases to be a partner, and at the same time that he ceases to be such a partner his vendee or assignee becomes a partner in his stead with the remaining members of the firm. Such a sale does not dissolve the partnership, and death of a member does not dissolve it. The incoming partner will not be liable for the antecedent debts of the firm as between the partners, but he takes his interest subject to the payment of antecedent partnership debts. Each member has a lien upon the partnership property for the debts due to the creditors of the partnership, which lien he may enforce in equity. These liens exist only against the partnership property while it is distinctly such partnership property. Such liens on the oil itself in favor of the members only exist ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman v. Millemon
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.