Lamb v. Wedgewood South Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Barwick v. Celotex Corp. (1984), Corum v. University of North Carolina (1992)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 218 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Ohio v. Kentucky · Silver v. Silver · Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc.
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action to recover damages based upon or arising out of the defective or unsafe condition of an improvement to real property shall be brought more than six years from the later of the specific last act or omission of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action or substantial completion of the improvement.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““The ‘remedy’ constitutionally guaranteed ‘for an injury done’ is qualified by the words “by due course of law.’ This means that the remedy constitutionally guaranteed must be one that is legally cognizable. The legislature has the power to define the circumstances under which a remedy is legally cognizable and those under which it is not.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Negligence claims are rarely susceptible of summary adjudication, and should ordinarily be resolved by trial of the issues.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.