Hardymon v. Glenn’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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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.

1. ““Whether or not a partnership actually exists depends essentially upon the real intention of the contracting parties and the terms of the partnership contract. As was said in Guthrie v. Foster, 256 Ky. 753, 755 , 76 S.W.2d 927 , 928 ‘ “strictly speaking, a partnership never arises by operation of law. It is a question of contract and intention, appearing from all the facts of the case” * * * “A partnership is a status arising out of a contract entered into by two or more persons, whereby they 'agree to share as common owners the profits of a business carried on by all or any of them on behalf of all of them.” ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 84 F. Supp. 704 - Porter v. Craddock

2. ““The gifts created rights in them which they could exercise or not, according to their own judgment and decision. There is a marked legal distinction between creating rights which you trust will not be exercised and creating no legal rights at all; a transaction of the first kind changes existing legal relations between the parties, while the other does not.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 122 F. Supp. 649 - Winton v. Kelm