Lambert v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2017
7 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 American Security & Trust Co. v. John J. Juliano, Inc. · Becker v. National Bank and Trust Co. · Yahn & McDonnell, Inc. v. Farmers Bank of Delaware · Levin v. Virginia National Bank · Caballero v. Wilkinson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ayment or satisfaction discharges the liability of a party only if made to the holder of the instrument. Code 8.3-603 . . . . Because payment in satisfaction of the instrument must be made to the party in possession in order to discharge the payor's liability, no notice is required for the protection of the payor. Rather, the payor may protect himself by demanding production of the instrument and refusing payment to any party not in possession unless in an action on the obligation the owner proves his ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If payment is made to a party who does not have in hand die obligation, the debtor takes the risks of such party having the authority to make collection.”
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.