Vancleave v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1960
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the vendors in that act of sale were commercial partners, and, as such, bound in solido, or not, it is clear that in the clause quoted, and for the obligations therein assumed, they did not intend to bind themselves, and did not bind themselves, in solido; but each spoke for himself individually, each bound himself, and only himself, not to do the things therein stipulated against. They did not act in that clause as partners in a business firm or concern. By the plain, unambiguous language used, they excluded all such idea.””
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.