Lyles v. Micenko’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2025
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Laningham v. United States Navy · Greene v. Dalton · Harding v. Gray
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ha[d] to be decided on credibility” and that having listened to all of the witnesses, found that Ms. Lyles’ version of what occurred with the pipes (that, in moving the pipes, Ms. Lyles accidentally struck the lamp) was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct that rises to the level of 'outrageousness' as to be beyond all possible levels of decency and utterly incomprehensible in a civilized society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arrest, incarceration and subsequent criminal trial [resulting in acquittal], for a crime that [the neighbor] maintains she never committed.”
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.