Lott v. Kees’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2009
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Roberts v. Cooper · Gilbert v. Holmes · Propeller Mohawk · Dahms v. Sears · Brown v. Bigné
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The doctrine of champerty is directed against speculation in lawsuits and to repress the gambling propensity of buying up doubtful claims. . . . [A]greements should be carefully watched and closely scrutinized, when called in question, and if found to have been made . . . for the purpose of gambling in litigation, or to be so extortionate or unconscionable as to be inequitable against the party, effect ought not to be given to them."”
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.