Lambert v. Blumenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1909
1 federal appellate · 17 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 People ex rel. Griffin v. Steele · Adam v. Ames Iron Co. · Law v. Patterson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule at common law is well established that where the writ of partition would lie only between coparceners, the plaintiff must bo in possession, or seised of the land when the writ was brought; and since the remedy by partition has been extended to joint tenants and tenants in common, the same rule obtains, whether the remedy is sought by writ or bill in equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rich v. Bray
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.