Lambert v. Polen’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2013
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Hawk v. Pennsylvania R. R. · Piquet Et Ux. v. Wazelle · Warman v. Craig · Amey v. Erb · Ellsworth v. Lauth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * While the rule which forbids the introduction of evidence by plaintiff that defendant is insured against liability, will be strictly adhered to, it would be an anachronism to apply it in favor of a defendant who himself educed the evidence to which he objects, without plaintiff being in any way responsible, directly or indirectly, for its production. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Sanchez
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.