Hurley v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I believe that the defendants were entitled to wind up the partnership affairs by liquidating the assets over a period of time rather than by an immediate forced sale. There is no evidence that the defendants took an unreasonably long time in winding up the business. In fact the uncontradicted testimony was to the effect that substantially more was realized by proceeding in the manner indicated rather than by an immediate liquidation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Paciaroni v. Crane

2. “The rationale for such a result is clear. The reason for awarding a retiring partner his share of the "profits attributable to the use of his right in the property of the dissolved partnership" is not because he still retains an interest in the business but rather "is intended to give him a return on assets belonging to him which still are being employed in the business by the remaining partner[s]."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Wis. 2d 609 - Gull v. Van Epps