Harrison v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 61 Cal. 4th 813 - DKN Holdings LLC v. Faerber (2015), 10 Cal. 2d 191 - Reed v. Industrial Accident Commission (1937)
36 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 Collins v. Bartlett · Chase v. Evoy · Coulthurst v. Coulthurst · Hook v. White · Northern Insurance v. Potter
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“several persons contracting together with the same party for one and the same act, shall be regarded as jointly, and not individually or separately liable, in the absence of any words to show that a distinct as well as entire liability was intended to fasten upon the promisors. ... Especially is this the rule as to the legal liability of partners upon their partnership obligations.”
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.