Donnell v. Harshe’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Schneider v. Schneider (1941), McDonald v. Matney (1884)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Dwinel v. Stone · Caswell v. Districh · Johnson v. Hoffman · Ambler v. Bradley · Harrower v. Heath
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It-is essential to a partnership that there be a community of interest in. the subject of it, and this community of interest must not be that of mere joint tenants, or tenants in common.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holton v. Guinn · Blair v. Shaeffer““There must be sueli a community of interests as empowers each party to make contracts, incur liabilities, manage the whole business, and dispose of the whole property; a right which, upon the dissolution of the partnership by death of one, passes to the survivor, and not to the representatives of the deceased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blair v. Shaeffer
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.