Kirby v. Schoonmaker’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1907 · most notably Saunders v. . Reilly (1887), Crook v. . Rindskopf (1887)
25 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The copartners certainly have the right to dissolve the partnership and divide the property of the firm between them, provided there is no intention of delaying or hindering their creditors in the collection of debts, thereby leaving their joint as well as their separate creditors to compete for a preference in payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bingham v. Tuttle““The case would have been entirely different if copartners, who were insolvent, and unable to pay the debts of the firm, either out of their copartnership effects or of their individual property, had made an assignment of the property of both to pay the individual debt of one of the copartners only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bingham v. Tuttle
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.