Lyons v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 406 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Hall v. Ford (1988), Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1991)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood · Catlin 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts generally accord agencies broad discretion in fashioning hearing procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the type of name-clearing hearing the [agency] must conduct,”
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.