Bader v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Saks (1992), Beckman v. Farmer (1990)
4 federal appellate · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Long v. Knox · Roark v. Allen · Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. · Wheeler v. White · Texas Bank and Trust Co. v. Moore
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Pjending contingent-fee cases are partnership property which may or may not have value, depending upon the evidence. Thus, we cannot agree with Bader and Cox’s contention that because the partnership operated on a cash-basis accounting system and because the value of the contingent-fee files at the time of decedent’s death is not readily or easily ascertainable, the files are not assets of the partnership. The fact that fees are not earned until a case is concluded by settlement or judgment does not compel the conclusion that the files lose their characterization as partnership assets....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the portion of the profits attributable to the [exiting partner's] ownership interest must be distinguished from the portion attributable to the skill, time, efforts, and diligence of the remaining partners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must prove, by competent evidence, the profits gained after dissolution and prior to termination which are attributable to the use of decedent's right in the property of the dissolved partnership.”
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.