United States v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 973 · 1993
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Botero-Ospina (1995), United States v. Fernandez (1994)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 United States v. Guzman · United States v. Smith · United States v. Morales-Zamora
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f failure to follow a perfect vector down the highway or keeping one's eye on the road were sufficient reasons to suspect a person of driving while impaired, a substantial portion of the public would be subject each day to an invasion of their privacy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether under the same circumstances a reasonable officer would have made the stop in the absence of the invalid purpose.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the manifestation of a hunch that something foul is afoot”
2 later decisions 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.