Lambert v. Yellowley’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.2d 915 · 1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1981
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Relationships
Relies on Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Crowley v. Christensen · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Beer Company v. Massachusetts
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of wide and unusual experience in the practice of medicine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert v. Yellowley
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.