135 Cal. App. 2d 558 - People v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 27 - People v. Sweeney (1960), 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons (1958)
47 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 Kotteakos v. United States · 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer · People v. Albertson · 44 Cal. 2d 178 - Bompensiero v. Superior Court
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he overwhelming weight of authority is that the acquittal of a defendant of the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime is not a bar to a subsequent prosecution of said defendant for the commission of said crime, even though said crime is alleged in the conspiracy indictment as the sole overt act committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
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.