Howard v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
230 federal appellate · 87 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 524 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Paul v. Davis (1976)
230 federal appellate · 87 district · 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLyons v. Howard (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Barr v. Matteo · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Arizona v. California · 83 W. Va. 156 - Hancock v. Mitchell
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 524 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be judged by federal standards, to be formulated by the courts in the absence of legislative action by Congress”
10 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.