Spencer v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1968 · most notably Jones v. Nickell (1944), Gamble v. Martin (1912)
26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed that the case cited holds that no partnership can exist in a single transaction of purchasing land with a view of selling it for profit. In the case cited the court does not hold that a partnership may not exist in one transaction, but simply holds that in that one transaction there was no partnership. The authorities are abundant to the effect that a partnership may, according to the intention of the parties, be formed for the purpose of one transaction alone in real estate; that is, the buying of one tract or more of land at the same time, and selling them for profit. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Nickell
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.