Lamb v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Blancato v. Feldspar Corp. (1987), White v. Burns (1990)
116 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 Roschen v. Ward · Duguay v. Hopkins · Lukas v. City of New Haven · Hayes v. Smith · State v. Roque
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental in our law that the right of a plaintiff to recover is limited to the allegations of his complaint.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough the state police are not statutorily charged with duties that concern the repair or maintenance of state highways ... the evidence in the present case indicates that by custom the commissioner of transportation has availed himself of the assistance of the state police and that the state police have assumed such duties. There was testimony that it is a state trooper's duty and usual procedure to report defects found in the highway. There was further testimony that the [department] relies on the state police to call about highway problems.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is the statute only, which entitles the plaintiff to compensation for his injury when that injury is caused through or by means of a defect in the highway. If the negligence of himself or of a third person is also a proximate cause, he cannot say with truth that he was injured by the defect; he can only say with truth that he was injured by his own or another's carelessness and the defect, and the two combined give no cause of action under the statute."”
2 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.