Orrick v. Vahey’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1935
4 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 Blair v. Perpetual Insurance · Bredow v. Mutual Savings Institution · State ex rel. Watts v. Boon · Nolley v. Callaway County Court
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all instances the surviving partner has the choice to administer on the partnership effects if he sees proper to do so; but if he neglects, then the individual administrator may take out letters of administration on the partnership estate. But he is required to give a new bond, and he acts in a new, separate and distinct capacity.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Johnson
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.