138 Tex. Crim. 375 - Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1997
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There do exist cases, we think, in which it is not necessary to prove a specific intent to kill any further than is involved in the proof of certain facts as the intentional infliction of serious bodily injury upon the person of another by the use of a weapon, deadly per se, or a killing committed in the attempted perpetration of arson, burglary, etc. In such cases we can see no reason for giving the charge under discussion [intent to kill].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. State
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.