Lampesis v. Comolli’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Brochu v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (1981), Lakeman v. LaFrance (1959)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 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 Ibey v. Ibey · Hall v. Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance · Clover Cutting Die Co. v. Sam Smith Shoe Corp. · Brown v. Mailhot · Wilson v. Manchester Savings Bank
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant's motive to mislead was strong and his conduct both before and after the misrepresentation complained of evinced a controlling intent to look after his own interests rather than carry out his commitments to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“implied from doubtful circumstances which merely awaken suspicion.”
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.