McBeth v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.3d 171 · 2009
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Shepherd v. Dallas County (2009), Wackman v. Rubsamen (2010)
3 federal appellate · 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Bradford v. Vento · Ernst & Young, L.L.P. v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. · Insurance Co. of North America v. Morris · Brown v. Bryan County
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[TWS] and [TWM] maintain that limited partners owe no fiduciary duties to one another, citing two unpublished Texas cases.... [E]ven a review of these cases reveals that they do not stand for the proposition urged by [TWS] and [TWM], AON Properties sets forth that even where no fiduciary duties normally arise, they spring into existence when a limited partner “actively engages in control over the operation of the business so as to create duties that otherwise would not exist.” AON Props., 1999 WL 12739 , at . Carpenter controlled both [TWS] and [TWM] and the evidence at trial showed that it was often unclear on whose behalf Carpenter was acting in exercising control over [the limited partnership]. Therefore, even accepting the argument that fiduciary duties would not normally arise between limited partners, even AON Properties militates the opposite conclusion due to the relationship between these parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.