Dawson v. White & Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that law firm’s partnership agreement and history of operations precluded recovery of goodwill upon dissolution, but recognizing that blanket prohibition against goodwill of a law firm has been superseded by the economic realities of the contemporary practice of law
• affirming trial court’s exclusion of unfunded pension plan payments from calculation of the partnership liabilities in part because partnership ‘‘never included the unfunded pension plan as a liability in the firm’s financial statements’’
• “[T]he partners are free to exclude particular items from the class of distributable partnership property, and such an agreement will be enforced in an accounting proceeding.”
• “[T]he partners are free to exclude particular items from the class of distributable partnership property, and such an agreement will be enforced in an accounting proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Salinas v. Rafati
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-06-27· cited 92×
• Uniko Carson v. Brian Fischer, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Eliot L. Spitzer, New York State Attorney General
  Second Circuit· 2005-08-23· cited 56×
• Schwartz v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1953-07-21· cited 49×
• Congel v. Malfitano
  Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors· 2018-03-27· cited 29×
• Development Specialists, Inc. ex rel. Coudert Brothers LLP v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  S.D. New York· 2012-07-18· cited 9×
• McDonald v. Fenzel
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1996-11-21· cited 8×
• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft v. Beasley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-12-30· cited 5×
• In Re Schick
  S.D. New York· 1999-06-18· cited 5×
• Cohen v. Akabas & Cohen
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-12-07· cited 5×
• Ederer v. Gursky
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-12-05· cited 4×
• Constitution Realty, LLC v. Oltarsh
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2003-10-30· cited 4×
• Development Specialists, Inc. v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  S.D. New York· 2012-05-24· cited 4×
• Kaplan v. Joseph Schachter & Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-05-10· cited 3×
• Saltzstein v. Payne
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-03-25· cited 3×
• MOORE, ROBERT D. v. JOHNSON, RICHARD S.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2013-07-05· cited 2×
• Ravitz v. Furst
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-09-08· cited 2×
• McQuillan v. Kenyon & Kenyon
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-04-10· cited 2×
• In re Leslie & Penny for Penny Preville, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2003-03-10· cited 1×
• Brennan v. Brennan Associates
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2015-05-05
• Zohar v. LaRock
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-07-22

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burns v. Burns
  New York Court of Appeals· 1994-11-01· cited 122×
• Spaulding v. Benenati
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-11-18· cited 52×
• Harmon v. Harmon
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-01-07· cited 52×
• Napoli v. Domnitch
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1962-12-24· cited 23×
• Spayd v. Turner
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1985-08-09· cited 19×
• Napoli v. Domnitch
  New York Court of Appeals· 1964-02-20· cited 18×
• Siddall v. Keating
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1959-05-12· cited 10×
• Siddall v. Keating
  New York Court of Appeals· 1959-12-30· cited 9×
• Dawson v. White & Case
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1995-02-07· cited 2×