Boyer v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Lowell Bar Ass'n v. Loeb (1943), Walsh v. Atlantic Research Associates, Inc. (1947)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Shulkin v. Shulkin · Seemann v. Eneix · Crompton v. Williams · Kavanaugh v. Johnson · Packard Motors Co. v. Tally
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The real question is to ascertain, in so far as possible, the intention and understanding of the parties. In the absence of an express agreement, the rule that no compensation is to be allowed precludes it, unless the other agreements as to the business to be done and the mode of conducting it show that compensation was intended. If this intention is doubtful, the subsequent course of dealing and conduct of the parties may be considered in determining whether there is such an implication in favor of the allowance of compensation as is tantamount to an express agreement.” 37 N.E.2d at 493 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patecell v. Cook“There must be a voluntary contract of association for the purpose of sharing the profits and losses, as such, which may arise from the use of capital, labor or skill in a common enterprise, and an intention on the part of the principals to form a partnership for that purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as would be normally expected of partners,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.