Lamkin v. Lovell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Lester v. Jacobs (1925), Cousins v. Crawford (1953)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Hart v. Sansom · Falls v. United States Savings, Loan & Building Co. · Cubbedge, Hazlehurst & Co. v. Napier · Third Nat. Bank v. Tierney
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No superficial appearance will be permitted to lead the court away from the true inwardness of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trost v. Beck
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.