Cothran v. Marmaduke & Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1952 · most notably Fink v. Brown (1919), Davis v. Gilmore (1951)
31 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not essential to constitute a partnership that the parties were by agreement to share in the losses, but it is sufficient if they are to have a community of interest in the profits as such. Goode v. McCartney, 10 Tex. 195 ; Manhattan Brass Co. v. Sears, 45 N. Y. 797 . In Story on Partnership, § 58, it is said ‘that he who is to take a part of the profits shall by operation of law be made liable to losses as to third persons, because by taking a part of the profits he takes from the creditors a part of that fund which is the security for the payment of their, debts.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.