McDonald v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1991 · most notably Commissioner v. Harmon (1944), Smith v. Meadows (1952)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 59 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 Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · McCune v. Essig · Spreckels v. Spreckels · Kenney v. Kenney · Perkins v. Sunset Tel. and Tel. Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an agreement (oral or written) to convey an interest in a homestead entry before the entryman is entitled to a patent is forbidden by United States law and is void. * * * [B]ut Federal law prohibits a sale of any interest therein; until the entry-man has completed his engagement with the United States and is entitled to a patent. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Either husband or wife may enter into any engagement or transaction with the other, or with any other person respecting property, which either might, if unmarried; subject, in transactions between themselves, to the general rules of common law which control the actions of persons occupying confidential relations with each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It will not be presumed that the legislature intended to adopt a construction not in accord with sound reasoning, common sense, or that would render the statute inconsistent with other laws intended to be retained, or the public policy of the adopting state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Weddle
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.