Lyons v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 737 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Westbrook (1990), United States v. Durk (1998)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Texas v. Brown · Andresen v. Maryland · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Logiudice v. Georgia · Gregg v. Georgia
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The test for determining the sufficiency of the description of the place to be searched is whether the place to be searched is described with sufficient particularity as to enable the executing officer to locate and identify the premises with reasonable effort, and whether there is any reasonable probability that another premise might be mistakenly searched. United States v. Gitcho , 601 F.2d 369 , 371 (8th Cir.) (citations omitted), cert. denied , 444 U.S. 871 , 100 S.Ct. 148 , 62 L.Ed.2d 96 (1979). Thus, where a search warrant contain[s] information that particularly identified the place to be searched, [many courts have] found the description to be sufficient even though it listed the wrong address. United States v. McCain , 677 F.2d 657 , 660-61 (8th Cir. 1982)."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But it is clear that in the circumstances the error in the warrant was not misleading or confusing. Atkinson and Short Streets intersect in front of Lyons' house. Sgt. Gibson obviously mistakenly read the street sign. In addition, the warrant provides an accurate physical description of the premises. Moreover, where the same officer both applied for an executed the warrant, a mistaken search is unlikely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a single residence with silver siding with red trim located on the south side of Arkinson [sic] Street” and stated that its address was”
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.