Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2001
11 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 Bruno v. United States · United States v. Cotton Valley Operators Committee · Ruloff v. . the People · Hopkins v. State · Becher 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By ‘observation’ we mean that direction of attention which is the source of impressions, and thus of knowledge ... It is sufficient [to allow the witness to testify] if the witness had an opportunity of personal observation and got some impressions from this observation.””
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.