Lyles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1983
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Lovell v. City of Griffin · Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson · Craig v. Harney · Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak · Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Freedom of the press' as guaranteed by constitutions, Federal and State ... contemplates not only the right to print, but also the right to distribute. The power of municipalities to enact regulations in the interest of public safety, health and welfare or convenience, may not be so employed as to abridge the individual liberties secured by the constitution to those who wish to speak, write, print or circulate information or opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stahl v. State“Provided that this restriction shall not apply to the broadcasting or televising, under the supervision of the court, of such portions of naturalization proceedings (other than the interrogation of applicants) as are designed and carried out exclusively as a ceremony for the purpose of publicly demonstrating in an impressive manner the essential dignity and the serious nature of naturalization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estes v. Texas“No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stahl 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.