Sigourney v. Munn’s Empirical Analysis
1828
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1966
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Forde v. Herron
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every case in which a court of equity interferes to wind up the concerns of a partnership, it directs the value of the stock to bo ascertained in the way in which it best can be done: i. e., by a conversion of it into money. Each party may insist that the joint stock shall he sold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Singleton v. Moore
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.