Lamb v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1985
5 federal appellate · 10 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 In Re Revocation of License to Operate a Motor Vehicle of Wright · In Re Revocation of License to Operate a Motor Vehicle of Wright · Tate v. Lamb · Lamb v. Parsons · White v. . Ordille
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The important questions are whether the North Carolina Court had jurisdiction and whether Butler was properly before the Court.”
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.