Beauregard v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
91 U.S. 134 · 1875
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1986 · most notably Meehan v. Valentine (1892), Clark v. Sidway (1892)
5 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “ There was in this agreement all the essential conditions for the creation of a partnership — provision for a union of services and money, and a division of profits and losses. The postponement of a division of profits between the three partners until the capital advanced by two of them should be refunded, with interest, did not alter the character of the agreement as one of partnership, nor the liability of all the partners to third persons for debts contracted in the prosecution of its business,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bybee v. Hawkett““A debt contracted by one of the partners, even without authority from the others, binds them if it be proved that the partnership was benefited by the transaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.