McClain v. Buechner’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2012
3 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 Young v. Stensrude · Justus v. Webb · Kueneke v. Jeggle · Chapman v. St. Louis County Bank · Ward v. State Farmers Mutual Tornado Insurance Co. of Missouri
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Missouri, we follow the aggregate theory of partnership rather than the entity theory. Among other things, this means defendant here made a single promise to perform to the six partners jointly. The six partners, thus, have a joint right against defendant. To enforce that right, the six-partner partnership is not considered to be a separate or juristic entity and, generally, all partners are necessary parties-plaintiffs in actions to enforce an obligation due to partnership. Without all partners being joined, the court has no power to adjudicate the rights of any partner.”
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.