United States v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 552 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Harris (1976), United States v. Greenwood (1986)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Dunn v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Lovell Manufacturing Co. v. Etten · Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak · United States v. Iacullo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a witness may not be impeached by contradiction as to collateral or irrelevant matters elicited on cross-examination,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the party seeking to introduce it for purposes of contradiction would be entitled to prove it as part of his case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.