Holmes v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1965
17 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 Symms Grocer Co. v. Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co. · Heaton v. Schaeffer · Sayre Commission Co. v. Keen · Holmes v. Dillard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The members of a firm are not directly liable upon a debt of the partnership, but their liability arises out of their connection with the firm, and is only traceable through the firm and must be established by a judgment against the firm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fowler v. Brooks
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.