Commonwealth v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A collateral order is an order separable from and collateral to the main cause of action where the right involved is too important to be denied review and the question presented is such that if review is postponed until final judgment in the case, the claim will be irreparably lost.”
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.