Wharf v. Wharf’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Harmon v. Martin (1947), Silberman v. Blodgett (1926)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 Bopp v. Fox · Strong v. Lord · Breckenridge v. Ostrom
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the death of a partner his right in specific partnership property vests in the surviving partner or partners, except where the deceased was the last surviving partner, when his right in such property vests in his legal representative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whittier v. Atkinson“(e) A partner's right in specific partnership property is not subject to dower, curtesy, or allowances to widows, heirs or next of kin.”
1 later decision 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.