Harmon v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 77 Ill. 2d 313 - Smith v. Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago (1979), 12 Ill. 2d 487 - Carroll v. Caldwell (1957)
9 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 Wharf v. Wharf · Hagerman v. Schulte · Speyer v. Desjardins · Vanhousen v. Copeland · People Ex Rel. Brignall v. Lewe
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘A joint adventure is not regarded as identical with a partnership, although, generally speaking, it may be said that practically the only distinction between the two is that the former relates to a single specific enterprise or transaction, while the latter relates to a general business of a particular kind.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.