Bates v. Babcock’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Lasry v. Lederman (1957), 72 Cal. App. 3d 544 - Gherman v. Colburn (1977)
69 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Coward v. Clanton · Gray v. Palmer & Eaton · Pico v. Cuyas · Bunnel v. Taintor's administrator · Babcock v. . Read
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The settlement of partnership accounts, and the conversion into money of the assets of the partnership, whether real or personal, and their division among the partners, has always been one of the functions of a court of equity, and that court never stops to inquire into the source of the title of such assets, or in whose name they are held.”
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.