Putnam v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 497 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
5 federal appellate ·
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 Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Kirby v. American Soda Fountain Co. · Freeman v. Marine Midland Bank-New York · Sasportes v. Copacabana · The National Research Bureau, Inc. v. Forrest L. Bartholomew, in No. 72-1640. The National Research Bureau, Inc., in No. 72-1641 v. Forrest L. Bartholomew
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A joint venture relationship is characterized by a number of identifying features. In a joint venture arrangement, two or more people combine property and skill to conduct for profit a single business transaction, as opposed to a continuing business enterprise. The venturers enjoy joint proprietary interest, the right to control each other’s conduct, and the obligation to share in losses as well as profits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the preferred practice, when no extensive proceedings on the ancillary claim have begun in federal court, is to dismiss [the state-law claim] so that the case may be brought in state court where it belongs.”
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.