Steinbeck v. Gerosa’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Mallis v. Bankers Trust Co. (1983), Marx v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company (1968)
14 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 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 Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Grosjean v. American Press Co. · Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue · Mabee v. White Plains Publishing Co.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the parties have so joined their property, interests, skills and risks that for the purpose of the particular adventure their respective contributions have become as one and the commingled property and interests of the parties have thereby been made subject to each of the associates on the trust and inducement that each would act for their benefit....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An indispensable essential of a contract of partnership or joint venture, both under common law and statutory law, is a mutual promise or undertaking of the parties to share in the profits of the business and submit to the burden of making good the losses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sums payable to petitioner by way of royalties were merely the price for the licensing of certain of his literary rights. The sales made by the publishers and the gross receipts from the motion pictures were simply the means by which the price for the licensing of Mr. Steinbeck’s literary rights were ultimately to be determined. On the contrary, it must be said that the source of Mr. Steinbeck’s income was not the sales made by the publisher, but the contracts made between him and his publisher in New York City.”
2 later decisions 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.