McKellar v. Bracewell’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2010
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Wagner v. Foster · Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. v. McFerrin · Womack v. Berry · Iley v. Hughes · Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. McCardell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears, however, that the rule of Iley v. Hughes has been applied primarily in personal injury tort actions. It is recognized that such cases have been accorded a special place in the jurisprudence of our State. By the express terms of Rule 174(b), supra, the trial court has wide discretion to order separate trials when judicial convenience is served and prejudice avoided. In the present case, the order granting separate trials served these salutary purposes.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The withdrawal of a partner from apartnership operates to dissolve the partnership as to the withdrawing partner.... The resignation of [partners] effect[s] a dissolution of the partnership as to their interests in it ... [It] did not effect a common law dissolution of the entire firm.”
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.