Lambert v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2020
1 district · 11 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 Wagner v. International Railway Co. · Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc. · Lambert v. Parrish
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[olne who has, through his negligence, endangered the safety of another may be held liable for injuries sustained by a third person in attempting to save such other from injury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fox v. Hawkins · Heck v. Robey“[a] rescuer is one who actually undertakes physical activity in a reasonable and prudent attempt to rescue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We may assume, though we are not required to decide that peril and reseue must be in substance one transaction; that the sight of one must have aroused the impulse to the other; in short, that there must be unbroken continuity between the commission of the wrong and the effort to avert its consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heck v. Robey
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.