36 Ala. App. 643 - White v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2009
13 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 McCormick v. Badham · Bellenger v. Whitt · Watson v. Hamilton · Finney v. Newson · Martin v. Massie
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Generally speaking a partnership inter se is a contract between two or more persons whereby funds, effects, labors or skills are to be devoted to some lawful business or enterprise. The agreement must include the understanding that the parties will share both the profits and the losses. The latter as well as the former is an essential requisite to a partnership. Watson v. Hamilton , 180 Ala. 3 , 60 So. 63 ; Heller v. Berlin , 208 Ala. 640 , 95 So. 10 ; Cunningham v. Staples , 216 Ala. 531 , 113 So. 590 ; Cox v. Fielding , 24 Ala. App. 68 , 130 So. 164 ."”
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.