McCabe v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 426 Pa. Super. 245 - Perlberger v. Perlberger (1993), Butler v. Butler (1995)
34 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 Hodge v. Hodge · 374 Pa. Super. 451 - McCabe v. McCabe
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remove from the firm a proportionate share of the accounts receivable, work-in-progress accounts, or other accounts included in the "going concern" value. Under no circumstances can a partner liquidate his share of the partnership and receive a proportionate share of the firm's total value, including its equipment, accounts receivable, etc. Rather. . . a partner is strictly limited to receiving his capital account, and his share of undistributed profits, in the event he wishes to liquidate his share in the firm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he substantive rights of a partner consist only of those specified in the partnership agreement, and in appraising this bundle of rights, the agreement cannot be disregarded. Indeed, the agreement must be viewed as the preeminent factor in valuing a partner's rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where an agreement imposes strict limits on the value that can be realized by a partner, the agreement places the continuing welfare of the partnership as a whole above the interests of any particular member of the firm. This results in a true diminution in the distinguishable value of any given partner’s interest, and it would be a fiction to appraise such an interest as though the limitations were not in effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Butler
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.