Lambeth v. Lambeth’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Murphy v. Murphy (1964), Porter v. CITIZENS BANK OF WARRENTON, INCORPORATED (1960)
26 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 Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati · Wright v. . Wright · Charles Skinner v. . D. G. Maxwell · White v. White · Pelletier v. Greenville Lumber Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts of equity have original power to appoint receivers and to make such orders and decrees with respect to the discharge of their trust as justice and equity may require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. Lewis
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.