Childers v. Neely’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert (1913), Kennedy v. Beets Oil Co. (1924)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 Kahn v. Smelting Co. · Duryea v. Burt · Ward v. Ward's Heirs · Lamar's Ex'or v. Hale · Jones v. Clark
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mining partnerships as distinct associations, with different rights and liabilities attaching to their members from those attaching to members of ordinary trading partnerships, exist in all mining communities; indeed, without them successful mining would be attended with difficulties and embarrassments, much greater than at present.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Of course, owners of mines, oil leases, or farms can by agreement make an ordinary partnership therein.””
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.