Lambert v. Byron’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2013
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children · 359 So. 2d 1275 - Killebrew v. Abbott Laboratories · 390 So. 2d 556 - McHale v. Lake Charles American Press · Westenberger v. Bernard · 468 So. 2d 1262 - State, Dept. of Transp. & Develop. v. Henry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]ecovery of attorney's fees is not available to one who represents himself because he has incurred no out-of-pocket expenses. Attorney's fees are awarded to a successful litigant so that his recovery might not be diminished by the expense of legal representation. To allow an attorney filing suit in proper person to recover attorney's fees when he has not actually incurred their expense gives him a monetary advantage unavailable to anyone hiring counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the situation envisioned by the contractual provisions to arise, the notes must be referred to another person: they must be . . . 'refer[red]' . . . 'to an attorney for collection.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“attorney's fees would be due if their holder referred them to an attorney for collection.”
1 later decision 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.