Clarke v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1940
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt that Clarke was to have one-half of the profits, and that he was entitled to compel defendants to an accounting. He is not confined to his remedy at law, whether they were’partners or not. The jurisdiction for accounting covers all fiduciary relations where the duty of keeping and rendering accounts exists, and, while there are cases in which the common Jaw remedy may be adequate, we do not think the present case is such that he ought to be turned out of a court of equity to seek an action at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petrie v. Torrent
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.