4 Ill. 2d 396 - People v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1992
3 federal appellate · 17 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 People v. Willy · Sims v. State · 70 Tex. Crim. 634 - Minter v. State · People v. Peters · Williams 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reasonable construction of the provisions in the light of their evident purpose requires that any person who corruptly engages in any such transaction is guilty of bribery, regardless of the motive of the other party thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 78 Whoever corruptly, directly or indirectly, gives any money or other bribe * * #. § 79 Every person who shall offer or attempt to bribe * * *.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision 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.