Lyons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Gumen v. State (1971), Brandenburger v. State (1952)
2 district · 28 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 James Jones Charles Jones William Gorman Robert Lott John Tippin Matthew Tippin and John Tally v. Catherine McMasters by Her Next Friend Manuel Ybarba · In re Estate of Billings · State v. Rogers · State ex rel. Roberts v. Reeder
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“According to Webster the word 'alien' means 'a foreigner, one born in or belonging to another country. ... In American law, one born out of the jurisdiction of the United States and not naturalized. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alfafara v. Fross“If a non-resident alien takes by succession, he must appear and claim the property within five years from the time of the succession or be barred. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Smith's Estate“Any person, whether citizen or alien, may take, hold, and dispose of property, real or personal, within this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alfafara v. Fross
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.