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← 241 Neb. 911 - State v. Lyman

State v. Lyman’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Silvers (1998), State v. Nielsen (1993)

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Tollett v. Henderson · State v. Hochstein · State v. Otey

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““An evidentiary hearing on a postconviction motion is required on an appropriate motion containing factual allegations which, if proved, constitute an infringement of the movant’s rights under the Nebraska or federal Constitution.”... Conversely, an evidentiary hearing on a motion for postconviction relief may properly be denied when the records and files of the case affirmatively establish that the defendant is not entitled to relief....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bowen
  2. “[c]ounsel's concern is the faithful representation of the interest of his client, and such representation frequently involves highly practical considerations. . . . Often the interests of the accused are not advanced . . . by contesting all guilt. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bazer

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.