Lyle v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2024
2 federal appellate · 18 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 State Ex Rel. Carmichael v. Jones · Washington-Detroit Theatre Co. v. Moore · State v. Finch · Simmons v. Reynolds · State Ex Rel. v. Young
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.
“The attorney general * * * when any civil proceedings may be pending in * * * the district court, in which the state or any county may be a party, * * shall have power to compromise or settle said suit or proceedings, or grant a release or enter satisfaction in whole or in part, of any claim or judgment in the name of the state or county, or dismiss the same, or take any other steps or proceedings therein which to him may appear .proper and right; and all such civil suits and proceedings shall be entirely under the management and control of the said attorney general * * * and all compromises, releases and satisfactions heretofore made or entered into by said officers are hereby confirmed and ratified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No obligation or liability of any person, association or corporation held or owned by or owing to the state, or any municipal corporation therein, shall ever be exchanged, transferred, remitted, released, postponed, or in any way diminished by the legislature, nor shall any such obligation or liability be extinguished except by the payment thereof into the proper treasury, or by proper proceeding in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Sutherland
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.