Lamson v. Boyden’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 35 Ill. 2d 311 - The People v. Myers (1966), People ex rel. Akin v. Butler Street Foundry & Iron Co. (1903)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLamson v. Boyden
Relationships
Relies on Counselman v. Hitchcock · Henry v. Bank of Salina · Southern Railway News Co. v. Russell · Weldon v. Burch · Miller v. People ex rel. Simons
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a witness is excused from giving testimony upon the ground, that his answers will tend to criminate him, or subject him to fines, penalties or forfeitures, he cannot be compelled to produce books or papers which will have the same effect.” ( 160 Ill. 613, 618 , 43 N.E. 781, 782 .)”
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.