Lamb v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Davis v. Mullins (1996), Dorn v. Dorn (1981)
33 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 Dorn v. Dorn · Cutshaw v. Cutshaw · State Highway Commissioner v. Easley · Spomer v. Spomer · In Re the Marriage of Royall
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clerical mistakes in all judgments or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or from an inadvertent omission may be corrected by the court at any time on its own initiative or upon the motion of any party and after such notice, as the court may order.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o enable us to effectively fulfill our function of appellate review it is usually necessary for us to have an accurate transcript or written statement of the testimony and incidents of trial in the case before us. Therefore, we have promulgated Rule 5:11 so that counsel, or the trial judge on his [or her] own initiative, may have a simple procedure available to correct errors of commission or omission in the transcript or written statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shapiro v. Younkin“[a] record number is assigned which identifies the petition and all other documents, including the record, that are filed in connection therewith until the final disposition of the case in our Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Belew v. Com.
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.