State v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
247 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Kelleher v. Marvin Lumber & Cedar Co. (2005), Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Davey (2006)
247 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 State v. Tufts · Appeal of Town of Bedford · Bianco, P.A. v. Home Insurance · State v. Kimball · State v. Johnson
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This means that we review only whether the record establishes an objective basis sufficient to sustain the discretionary judgment made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“must demonstrate that the court's ruling was clearly untenable or unreasonable to the prejudice of [that party's] case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a sentencing judge has broad discretion to choose the sources and types of evidence upon which to rely in imposing sentence, that discretion is not unlimited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Willey
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.