Lamon v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably 65 Ga. App. 668 - Whatley v. Henry (1941), 119 Ga. App. 697 - Jones v. Cloud (1969)
37 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 Powell v. Berry · Baker v. Richmond City Mill Works · Sullivan v. Curling · Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Tompkins · Savannah Electric Co. v. Crawford
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the term `contributory' negligence has been construed by the courts as synonymous with what is perhaps more accurately termed `comparative negligence' or the rule of diminution of damages, where the plaintiff's negligence is not such as to wholly bar a recovery....”
1 later decision 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.