Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably Papasan v. Allain (1986), 564 So. 2d 1 - Hill v. Thompson (1989)
6 federal appellate · 16 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 United States v. Wyoming · Cooper v. Roberts · United States v. Morrison · United States v. Morrison · Pace v. State Ex Rel. Rice
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature had authority to execute the trust for school purposes at its discretion. [A]t that time the method of the execution of the trust was for the decision of the legislature”
1 later decision 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.