Lambert v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 660 · 1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), Rogers v. Peck (1905)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 15 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 Schwab v. Berggren · Holden v. State of Minnesota · Jugiro v. Brush · McElvaine v. Brush
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is natural that counsel for the condemned in a capital case should lay hold of every ground which, in their judgment, might tend to the advantage of their client, but the administration of justice ought not to be interfered with on mere pretexts.”
4 later decisions 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.