Lyle v. Koehler’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 426 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Martinez (2005), Chandler v. Jones (1987)
17 federal appellate · 11 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 Bruton v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Pointer v. Texas · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · California v. Green
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[bjelieving the alibi to be false, the prosecution obviously did not seek to introduce the letters in order to demonstrate the truth of the particular statements they contained. Rather, the government intended to have the jury infer from the statements that [the author] was attempting to obtain fabricated alibi testimony, an act that revealed a “guilty mind” on his part regarding the shootings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When used to prove the truth of that assertion, the bill was hearsay under Md. Rule 5-801(c), because it contained ‘a statement ... offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garner v. State“"Hearsay" is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.