Lamar v. Micou’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 218 · 1885
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 31 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 354 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Mills v. Green (1895), Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. (1991)
154 federal appellate · 31 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Wayman v. Southard · Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · Lamar v. Micou · Owings v. Hull
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 354 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of any state of the Union, whether depending upon statutes or upon judicial opinions, is a matter of which the courts of the United States are bound to take judicial notice, without plea or proof.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although some books speak only of the father, or, in case of his death, the mother, as guardian by nature; 1 Bl. Com. 461; 2 Kent Com. 219; it is clear that the grandfather or grandmother, when the next of kin, is such a guardian.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.