Burton M. Cooper v. Leslie A. Isaacs’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.2d 1202 · 1971
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2010
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on 19 Cal. 2d 147 - Owen v. Cohen · Ferrick v. Barry · Straus v. Straus · Napoli v. Domnitch · 34 Misc. 2d 237 - Napoli v. Domnitch
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“True, the partnership agreement does discuss certain ways by which the partnership can be terminated and states that their partnership “shall continue until terminated as herein provided.” [Citation omitted.] However, it may well be that the parties did not consider the possibility that serious disagreement would arise at the time they made the agreement; the language limiting the methods of terminating the partnership may have been intended only to prevent a partner from dissolving the partnership voluntarily and without good cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“u * * * (2) A partner becomes in any other way incapable of performing his part of the partnership contract. (3) A partner has been guilty of such conduct as tends to affect prejudicially the carrying on of the business. (4) A partner willfully or persistently commits a breach of the partnership agreement, or otherwise so conducts himself in matters relating to the partnership business that it is not reasonably practicable to carry on the business in partnership with him____””
1 later decision 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.