Lyons v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2003
3 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 Frisbie v. Collins · Jackson v. Olson · Gray v. Connors · 36 Misc. 2d 345 - People ex rel. Hein v. Ramsden
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As an escaped convict, petitioner was a fugitive from justice. Gray v. Connors, 285 Ky. 229 , 147 S.W.2d 384 . His status is less favorable than that of the petitioner in Frisbie v. Collins, 342 U.S. 519 , 72 S.Ct. 509 , 96 L.Ed. 541 , who had been returned by force to Michigan from Illinois for trial. In denying habeas corpus in an attack on his conviction, the Court held: ‘There is nothing in the Constitution that requires a court to permit a guilty person rightfully convicted to escape justice because he was brought to trial against his will.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.