Lambert v. Ensign Manuf'g Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably National Surety Company v. Architectural Decorating Company (1912), Glenn Coal Co. v. Dickinson Fuel Co. (1934)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 The Harrisburg · Taylor v. Cranberry Iron & Coal Co. · Howell v. Howell · Riddle v. McGinnis · Jackson's Adm'r v. Hull
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every such action shall be commenced within two years after the death of such deceased person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he cause of action [for wrongful death] did not exist at common law, but is created by statute. The bringing of the suit within two years from the death of the person whose death has been caused by wrongful act is made an essential element of the right to sue, and it must be accepted in all respects as the statute gives it. And it is made absolute, without saving or qualification of any kind whatever. There is no opening for explanation or excuse. Therefore, strictly speaking, it is not a statute of limitation.”
2 later decisions 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.