Lydon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon (1984), Berry v. Commonwealth (1985)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · United States v. Scott · Greene v. Massey
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.