Big Four Implement Co. v. Keyser’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1952
18 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 Hoyt v. Sprague · Didlake v. Roden Grocery Co. · Central Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Respass · Frey v. Eisenhardt
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The surviving partner is vested with some discretion as to the manner of closing the business and the time to be taken for that purpose. He may continue the business long enough to close it up without sacrificing the assets and long enough to make an advantageous disposition of the stock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yturriaga v. Cobeaga
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.