Lyles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
254 F.2d 725 · 1957
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 9 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Pate v. Robinson (1966), Shannon v. United States (1994)
160 federal appellate · 9 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Palmer v. Hoffman · Quercia v. United States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Bruno v. United States
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sometimes a defendant may not want such an instruction given. If that appears affirmatively on the record we would not regard failure to give it as grounds for reversal. Otherwise, whenever hereafter the defense of insanity is fairly raised, the trial judge shall instruct the jury as to the legal meaning of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity in accordance with the view expressed in this opinion.””
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * jie may have a mental disease, and the mental disease may have been the cause of his criminal act, and he may be suffering from the same disease at the time of his trial; but it is a scientific fact that he nevertheless may be competent to stand trial under this definition of competency. A paranoiac or a pyromaniae may well understand the charges against him and be able to assist in his defense. ‘To assist in his defense’ of course does not refer to legal questions involved but to such phases of a defense as a defendant usually assists in, such as accounts of the facts, names of witnesses, etc. * * *””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our present consideration is addressed to several issues which can be stated as follows: “1. In cases where the defense of insanity is asserted what, if anything, should the court instruct the jury about the consequences of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, pursuant to D.C.Code § 24-301? ” (Three other “issues” are stated, with which we are not concerned.)”
6 later decisions 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.