44 Ill. App. 3d 802 - People v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1991
12 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 40 Ill. 2d 522 - The People v. Williams · 54 Ill. 2d 419 - People v. Craven · 44 Ill. 2d 53 - The PEOPLE v. Burton · 32 Ill. App. 3d 736 - People v. Wright · 33 Ill. 2d 168 - The People v. Warren
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recognized test for determining whether a prosecutor’s comment has violated a defendant’s exercise of his right to remain silent under this statute was set forth for the first time in Watt v. People (1888), 126 Ill. 9, 32 , 18 N.E. 340 , 350: ‘° ° ° [W]as the reference intended or calculated to direct the attention of the jury to the defendant’s neglect to avail himself of his legal right to testify?’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where is that gun? I sure wish we had it. Only one man knows where that gun is and he’s sitting right there. Phillip Lyons.””
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.