Lyons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2013
22 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante · United States 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“errors adversely affecting the exercise of peremptory challenges [are] not structural errors”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“More than a century ago, the Supreme Court said that the right to strike jurors without cause is “one of the most important of the rights secured to the accused.... Any system for the empan-elling of a jury that prevents or embarrasses the full, unrestricted exercise by the accused of that right, must be condemned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the possible deprivation of the exercise of a peremptory challenge does not mandate reversal because the relevant inquiry is whether the juror was actually biased against the defendant.”
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.