LaMade v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2000
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Eichel v. New York Central Railroad · Luck v. United States · Tipton v. Socony Mobil Oil Co. · United States v. Bussey · Polkinhorn v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“known as Ophthaine. Treatment by Dr. Wilson continued until December 1969, at which time both appellant and Dr. Wilson considered the wound healed, appellant's sole complaint being of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was nothing that I could reasonably be certain what transpired in March was probably related to his previous injury (sic).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had this syndrome known as recurrent epithelial erosion which involves the left cornea,”
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.