Forbes v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1995
5 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 Forbes v. Butler
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The amount of compensation either party in a partnership or joint venture is entitled to receive, in the absence of contract otherwise, is dependent upon the profits made from such joint venture.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keller v. Wixom
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.