Paterno v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 314 · 1948
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2003 · most notably Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret (1955), State v. Rodriguez (1980)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Relies on In re Oliver · Mooney v. Holohan · Cole v. State of Arkansas · American Surety Co. v. Baldwin · Robert West v. State of Louisiana
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only a very small portion of the stolen property was recovered and that was found in the possession of several admitted inmates of a disorderly house who are of necessity the chief witnesses for the People in this case. For these reasons and because of the character of these witnesses, it is recommended that the defendant be permitted to plead guilty to the reduced charge of Attempted Grand Larceny 2nd Degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paterno v. Lyons“with the intent to deprive or defraud another of the use and benefit of property, or to appropriate the same to the use of . . . any other person other than the true owner, wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds [any property] by any means whatever, from the possession of the true owner or of any other person. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paterno v. Lyons“in any way . . . conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding . . . property, knowing the same to have been stolen, or appropriated wrongfully in such a manner as to constitute larceny,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paterno v. Lyons
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.