Lambert v. People of the State of California’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
616 federal appellate · 90 district · 711 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,783 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Ring v. Arizona (2002), Moore v. City of East Cleveland (1977)
616 federal appellate · 90 district · 711 state decisions — followed in 44 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · United States v. Harriss · United States v. Dotterweich · United States v. Balint
Cited together with Morissette v. United States · United States v. Balint · United States v. Freed · United States v. Dotterweich · Liparota v. United States
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 1,783 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlike the commission of acts, or the failure to act under circumstances that should alert the doer to the consequences of his deed.”
97 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a deviation from the strong currents of precedent--a derelict on the waters of the law,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The present laws of the United States and of the forty-eight states are thick with provisions that command that some things not be done and others be done, although persons convicted under such provisions may have had no awareness of what the law required or that what they did was wrongdoing. . . . Many instances of this are to be found in regulatory measures in the exercise of what is called the police power where the emphasis of the statute is evidently upon achievement of some social betterment rather than the punishment of the crimes as in cases of mala in se.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.