State v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2017
18 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Arnett v. Kennedy · United States v. Harriss · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“People of common intelligence need not always guess at what a statute means by ‘lawful.’ Presumptively available to all citizens are the statements of law contained in statutes and in court rulings. Our cases make clear the important relevance of statutory and common law to the meaning of the concept of ‘lawfulness’ as used in legislative enactments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burke“[t]he vagueness doctrine does not invalidate every [ordinance] which a reviewing court believes could have been drafted with greater precision, especially in light of the inherent vagueness of many English words.”
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.