95 Ill. 2d 91 - Couri v. Couri’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 61 Ohio App. 3d 127 - Lorain National Bank v. Saratoga Apartments (1989), 268 Ill. App. 3d 355 - Levy v. Markal Sales Corp. (1994)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 76 Ill. 2d 427 - Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp. · Wylie v. Bushnell · 3 Ill. 2d 291 - Rizzo v. Rizzo · Vangel v. Vangel · Timmermann v. Timmermann
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the managing partner who was admittedly responsible for virtually all of the financial aspects of the partnership, defendant had a duty, as trustee, to maintain regular and accurate records and to account for partnership transactions. (Altschuler v. Altschuler (1951), 410 Ill. 169, 177-78, 196-97 , 101 N.E.2d 552; see also Bakalis v. Bressler (1953), 1 Ill.2d 72, 78-79 , 115 N.E.2d 323 . Einsweiler v. Einsweiler (1945), 390 Ill. 286, 293 , 61 N.E.2d 377 ; Wylie v. Bushnell (1917), 277 Ill. 484, 491 , 115 N.E. 618 ; Ill.Rev.Stat.1981, ch. 106½, pars. 20, 21(1), 22.) All doubts and obscurities created by his own negligent failure to keep adequate records were properly resolved against him by the trial court. Altschuler v. Altschuler (1951), 410 Ill. 169, 196-97 , 101 N.E.2d 552 ; Crimp v. First Union Trust & Savings Bank (1933), 352 Ill. 93, 102 , 185 N.E. 179 ; Crane & Bromberg, Partnership sec. 66, at 384 (1968).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rights and duties of the partners in relation to the partnership shall he determined, subject to any agreement between them, by the following rules: (1) Each partner shall he repaid that partner's contributions, whether by way of capital or advances to the partnership property and share equally in the profits and surplus remaining after all liabilities, including those to partners, are satisfied; and, except as provided in s. 178.12(2), each partner must contribute towards the losses, whether capital or otherwise, sustained by the partnership according to that partner's share in the profits. (5) All partners have equal rights in the management and conduct of the partnership business. (6) No partner is entitled to remuneration for acting in the partnership business, except that a surviving partner is entitled to reasonable compensation for his or her services in winding up the partnership affairs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bushard v. Reisman“Absent an agreement, courts will not attempt to equalize compensation commensurate with services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bushard v. Reisman
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.