Welbourn v. Kleinle’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1993
14 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 Hoffman Steam Coal Co. v. Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. · Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. v. Parish · 36 N.J. Eq. 174 - Porter v. Woodruff · Tennant v. Dunlop · Ringgold v. Ringgold
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether it is technically accurate to designate them trustees is not material, since there is a general concurrence among text writers, and in the decided cases, that they are trustees in a certain sense, and that they sustain a fiduciary-relation to the representatives of the deceased partner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fried v. Burk
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.