Lambert v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1982
7 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 Kann v. Wausau Abrasives Co. · Swanson v. Priest · McCrillis v. American Heel Co. · Allbee v. Elms · Knox v. Allard
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . When disagreement and unfriendly relations supplant understanding and natural affection, courts have recognized the difficulty and in some cases the futility of compelling a continuance of the agreement for life support. The likelihood of the aged (recipient) will receive the personal support and maintenance she bargained for is so small that equity does not undertake the dubious effort of enforcing it. . . . ” (bracketing supplied).”
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.