Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid (1927), Dyer v. State (1941)
82 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 Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Gonzalez · Smith v. State · Sharp v. State · Moulton v. State · Gray v. State
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of our decisions is that a mere objection to already spoken words does not reach the evil aimed at, and that the court must be appealed to to exclude them from the consideration of the jury, failing which there is nothing presented * * * by an exception.””
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.