United States v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 77 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. Smith (1993), United States v. Plummer (1991)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Santobello v. New York · Stirone v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · United States v. Joyce · United States v. Shavin
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny agreement [concerning immunity] made by the government must be scrupulously performed and kept”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen the government seeks to obviate the privilege against self-incrimination, it should do so with greater care than was used here. Ambiguous phrases ... should not be used. The terms of [debriefing sessions] in which potentially incriminatory information is given by a person subject to investigation should be spelled out with particular clarity. When the government fails to do this, it is not unreasonable or unfair to hold that it should suffer the consequences of ambiguity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that nothing the appellant said could be attributed to him or used against him, but that the government would be free to follow any leads provided by appellant against him....”
1 later decision 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.