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United States v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis

687 F.3d 754 · 2012

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
7
states following
January 2025
most recently cited

10 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 981 (§ 1366 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 853 (§ 413 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2461 (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990)

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · Whren v. United States

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is well-established that an officer may conduct a stop based on information obtained by fellow officers.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “particularized and objective basis for suspecting wrongdoing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.