Patterson v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 539 · 1947
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1973 · most notably United States v. White (1944), Graybeal v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n (1973)
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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
reviewedLamb v. Patterson (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Kadrie · Gibson v. United States · United States v. Eliason · Denby v. Berry
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubtless Friedman could not require the Secretary of War to give him a certificate of honorable discharge from the army in place of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellsworth v. Maher
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.