Yoder v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Hooper v. Yoder (1987), Chandler Medical Building Partners v. Chandler Dental Group (1993)
20 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 Page v. Clark · Elsbach v. Mulligan · Zeibak v. Nasser · Uptime Corp. v. Colorado Research Corp. · Matthews v. Tri-County Water Conservancy District
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our rules of civil procedure, the precise legal theory asserted by a claimant is not controlling, so long as the complaint gives sufficient notice of the transaction sued upon.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]y the express will of any partner when no definite term or particular undertaking is specified.”
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.