Lamb v. Rubin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1990
6 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 Butler v. Commonwealth · Tate v. Lamb · Ladd v. Lamb · Willis v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Lamb v. Hill
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“supported by a preponderance of the evidence and he has applied correct principles of law to the proved facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Is habitually a reckless or negligent driver of a motor vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to protect the public in the use of the highways . . . .”
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.