Fain v. O'CONNELL’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2018
6 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 Union Carbide Corp. v. Huddleston · McIntyre v. Balentine · Schwartz v. Johnson · Cecil v. Hardin · Cunningham v. City of Thief River Falls
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A joint venture is an association of persons with intent, by way of contract, express or implied, to engage in and carry out a single business adventure for joint profit, for which purpose they combine their efforts, property, money, skill, and knowledge, but without creating a partnership in the legal or technical sense of the term.... ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“elements that need to be shown to establish a joint venture among several parties are a common purpose, some manner of agreement among them, and an equal right on the part of each to control both the venture as a whole and any relevant instrumentality”). . E.g. Rogers, 367 S.W.3d at 215 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impute the negligence of one of the parties to the other.”
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.