People v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968), 19 Cal. 3d 835 - People v. Gainer (1977)
159 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Berger v. United States · Viereck v. United States · 21 Cal. 2d 690 - People v. Huston · 31 Cal. 2d 469 - People v. Westek
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that when an accused is denied that fair and impartial trial guaranteed by law, such procedure amounts to a denial of due process”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Appellant next assails the testimony of the prosecuting witnesses as inherently improbable. This contention cannot be sustained. The rule is thus stated in People v. Huston (1943), 21 Cal.2d 690, 693 [ 134 P.2d 758 ]; “ ‘Although an- appellate court will not uphold a judgment or verdict based upon evidence inherently improbable, testimony which merely discloses unusual circumstances does not come within that category. (Citing ease.) To warrant the rejection of the statements given by a witness who has been believed by a trial court, there must exist either a physical impossibility that- they are true, or their falsity must be apparent without resorting to inferences or deductions. (Citing cases.) Conflicts and even testimony which is subject to justifiable suspicion do not justify the reversal of a judgment, for it is the exclusive province of the trial judge or jury to determine the credibility of a witness and the truth or falsity of the facts upon which a determination depends.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there must exist either a physical impossibility that they are true, or their falsity must be apparent without resorting to inferences or deductions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.