Lamb v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1978
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on Sola Electric Co. v. Jefferson Electric Co. · Beauharnais v. Illinois · Johnston v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. · O'Brien v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Weiss v. Los Angeles Broadcasting Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based upon material broadcast by a legally qualified candidate for public office.”
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.