Barnes v. Boyers’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1931
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Colgrove v. . Tallman · Johnson v. Young, Carson & Bryant
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the dissolution of a partnership, whether by voluntary act or will of the parties, or by the retirement of a partner, or by mere afflux of time, will not in any manner change the rights of third persons as to any past contracts and transactions with or on account of the firm; but their obligations and efficacy and validity will remain the same and be binding upon the partnership in the same manner as if no dissolution had taken place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It frequently happens that upon the retirement of one partner, the remaining partners undertake to pay the debts and to secure the credits of the firm. This is a mere matter of private arrangement and agreement between the parties, and can in no respect be admitted to vary the rights of the existing creditors of the firm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order that one liability may be replaced by another, by agreement, it is essential that the person in whom the correlative right resides should be a party to the agreement, or should, at all events, show by some act of his own that he accedes to the substitution.”
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.