Chapman v. Dwyer’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.2d 468 · 1930
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1981
1 district · 5 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 National Bank v. Burkhardt · In re Taub · Braddock v. Hinchman · Hill v. Curtis · Claim of Martin v. Henry Card & 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case the business might have been carried out as a joint venture if the parties had had an agreement sufficient to make it so. The burden of proving such an understanding, express or implied, was on the plaintiff. The gist of such an agreement to be proved was that the plaintiff should have an ■ interest in the fee, as such, considered as the res rather than the right to be paid his fair compensation to be determined, either on the basis of what he did or what success attended the efforts of both. * * * ””
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.