Lyda v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 788 · 1963
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably State v. Wolery (1976), United States v. Kelly (1965)
98 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 13 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. § 2113
Relies on Krulewitch v. United States · Vick v. United States · Simon v. United States · United States v. Krulewitch
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incredible or unsubstantial on its face.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The issue is whether the use of false names bears directly enough upon the witness’ veracity as to outweigh the' general prohibition against cross-examining about particular acts of misconduct other than convictions of a crime. We think it does. If a man lie about his own name, might he not tell other lies?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think this to be the rule even though the accomplice is in a position to gain favors from the government by his testimony, and even though there are inconsistencies in his story, so long as it is not ‘incredible or unsubstantial on its face.’” (Citations omitted).”
3 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.