Calkins v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1966
9 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.
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.
““I am inclined to think that the fraud was not a joint fraud for which the three partners could unite in a common-law action; but it was a fraud upon each partner separately, for which he could sue alone to recover the damages which he sustained. The damage sustained by each partner was not the same, but was in proportion to his interest in the partnership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Felter v. Maddock
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.