Lamborn v. National Bank of Commerce’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 469 · 1928
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1981 · most notably Mitchell v. City of Roswell (1941), Continental Nat. Bank v. National City Bank of New York (1934)
8 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLamborn v. National Bank of Commerce of Norfolk (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Norrington v. Wright · Gunn v. United States · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir · Harrison v. Fortlage · Filley v. Pope
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.
““The defendant is obviously not liable, unless there was a tender of sugar which met the requirements of the letter of credit as to amount and quality of the sugar, as to the time (Norrington v. Wright, 115 U. S. 188 , 6 S. Ct. 12 , 29 L. Ed. 366 ), and the place (Filley v. Pope, 115 U. S. 213 , 6 S. Ct. 19 , 29 L. Ed. 372 ) of shipment; and as to the manner of shipment and the ultimate destination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court is not at liberty, either to disregard words used by the parties, descriptive of the subject-matter, or of any material incident, or to insert words which the parties have not made use of.””
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.