Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. State · Ryans v. State · Rapp v. State · Smith v. State · Garrett 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of any building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel or other structure or erection. in which any property is kept, or breaks into or forcibly opens, any coin-operated or vending machine or device with intent to steal any property therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State““. . . When it is shown that one accused of burglary broke in and entered the premises in the nighttime, it may ordinarily be presumed that he did so with the intent to steal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardesty 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.