Ashby v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1910
11 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 Donnell v. Harshe · Dwinel v. Stone · Musser v. Brink
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There must be sueli a community of interests as empowers each party to make contracts, incur liabilities, manage the whole business, and dispose of the whole property; a right which, upon the dissolution of the partnership by death of one, passes to the survivor, and not to the representatives of the deceased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blair v. Shaeffer
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.