Lambur v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 137 · 1945
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably United States v. DBB, Inc. (1999), United States v. McCall (2006)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Berger v. United States · United States Marcus v. Hess · Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Brasfield v. United States · Miller v. Robertson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose, the subject matter and the condition of affairs which led to its enactment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily under these circumstances an appellate court will refuse to review the judgment of a trial court entered upon the verdict of a jury. On appeal the parties are usually restricted to the theory on which the cause was tried in the lower court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to effectuate and not destroy the spirit and force of the law and not to render it absurd.”
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.