Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Gallego v. State (2001), State v. Brown (1996)
2 district · 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 Faretta v. California · Franks v. Delaware · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · 19 Cal. 3d 121 - People v. Windham
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without need for a continuance, the request should be deemed timely.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Guerrina v. State · Watson v. State“[a]lthough the constitutional right of self-representation is generally protected by the courts, courts sometimes permit self-representation to be denied where ... the case is especially complex, requiring the assistance of counsel ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable cause to justify [his] late request.”
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.