Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably Sharp v. State (1986), Livingston v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 68 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 35 Tex. Crim. 463 - Reddick v. State · Wright v. State · 68 Tex. Crim. 214 - Weaver v. State · 96 Tex. Crim. 569 - Fortune v. State
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the rule that while a witness who has identified her assailant at the trial may testify that she also identified him while he was in custody of the police, others may not bolster her unimpeached testimony by corroborating the fact that she did identify him.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Casias v. State · Wyatt 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.