Lapham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 994 · 1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1980
3 federal appellate ·
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 Stock v. Cox · Allaben v. Commissioner · Martin v. Town of West Hartford
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appellant received the contract price as payment for the land deeded.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.