Lyons v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 649 · 1894
Citation profile
13 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Murphy v. Utter (1902), Harwood v. Wentworth (1896)
13 district · 14 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 Field v. Clark · Jones v. United States · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · In re Duncan
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perhaps, however, it would be proper to extend our examination somewhat further. The question whether a seeming act of the legislature has become a law in accordance with the fundamental law is a judicial one to be tested by the courts and judges, and not a question of fact to be tried by a jury:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harwood v. Wentworth“In Field v. Clark, it was held by this court upon great consideration that . . . authentication [of an enrolled bill] as a bill that has passed Congress is complete and unimpeachable. . . . [T]he rule laid down in Field v. Clark governs the case before us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.