Lyons v. Merrick’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
11
states following
March 2000
most recently cited
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Nashua Iron & Steel Co. v. Worcester & Nashua Railroad (1882), Linnehan v. Sampson (1879)
1 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Rust v. Low · Eames v. Salem & Lowell Railroad · Barnum v. Vandusen
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.