Lambert v. Heaton’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1999
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Magee v. Manhattan Life Insurance · Fair v. Tampa Electric Company · Howe Machine Company v. . Farrington · The Richter Jewelry Co. v. Schweinert · City of Coral Gables v. Hepkins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In further extension of these principles, it is the rule that if with the knowledge or assent of the creditor any material part of the transaction between the creditor and his debtor is misrepresented to the surety, the misrepresentation being such that but for the same having taken place either the suretyship would not have been entered into at all, or, being entered into, the extent of the surety's liability might thereby be increased, the surety so given is void at law, on the ground of fraud. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A contract of surety imports entire good faith and confidence between the parties in regard to the whole transaction * * *.”
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.