Donahue v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1992
7 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 Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Strang v. Witkowski · Stanley v. M. H. Rhodes, Inc. · Kane v. Kane · Roberts v. Weiner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To support an action of accounting, one of several conditions must exist. There must be a fiduciary relationship, or the existence of mutual and/or complicated accounts, or a need of discovery, or some other special ground of equitable jurisdiction such as fraud.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court does not go into the items of the account but only pleas attacking the right of the plaintiff to have an accounting are permitted . . . The judgment of the court in an action for an accounting is, if an issue is pending raising the right of the plaintiff to have it, that there be an accounting, which then is taken in accordance with the provisions of the statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The action of account as recognized by our statutes . . . is the common law action of account somewhat amplified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.