Lambert Ex Rel. Lambert v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Hull (1952), 107 So. 2d 496 - Adams v. Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York (1958)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Orcutt v. Century Building Co. · Roman v. King · Stith v. J. J. Newberry Co. · Hoelzel v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Harriman v. Stowe
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, the liability of the servant or agent does not result on account of the existence of the relation of master and servant, or principal and agent, but results from the breach of a duty owed to the third party under the law, which makes him liable without regard to whether he is the servant or agent of another or not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the verdict as to both liability and amount of damages”
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.