Spaulding v. Stubbings’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Moreover, the letters of Stubbings in evidence show that the proposition to start the business at Eagle River was first made by him; that he purchased much stock for the store; that he advised, if he did not dictate, of whom O’Connor should make purchases, as well as prices and terms; that he arranged for credits; and that he carefully watched and freely interfered with all the details of the business, so far as he could obtain knowledge of those details by persistent requests to the O’Connors to furnish him detailed information thereof. In short; he exercised an influence in, and assumed a control over, the management of the business (which was acquiesced in by the O’Connors) entirely incompatible with the idea that he was merely a creditor of O’Connor for the amount of his advances and interest thereon, which can only be satisfactorily accounted for on the theory that he was handling and directing his own business.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dinkelspeel v. Lewis

2. ““The real inquiry always is, Plave the parties by their contract combined their property, labor, or skill in an enterprise or business, as principals, for the purpose of joint profit?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Montello Granite Co. v. Industrial Commission