Lyon v. Lenon’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 1930 · most notably City of Vincennes v. Citizens' Gas Light Co. (1892), Citizens & Southern Bank v. Union Warehouse & Compress Co. (1924)
38 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 Reissner v. Oxley · Lonergan v. Stewart · Gaff v. Greer · Lowe v. Ryan · Rice v. Nixon
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction is, Can the depositor by his contract compel a delivery of wheat, whether the dealer is willing or not? If he can, the transaction is a bailment. If the dealer has the option to pay for it in money or .other wheat, it is a sale.””
2 later decisions 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.