Lyon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Davis v. State (1994), Flowers v. State (1996)
131 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 Helms v. State · Rios v. United States · Davis v. State · Fairfield v. State · Diaz v. State
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the punishment assessed does not exceed the punishment recommended by the prosecutor and agreed to by the defendant and his attorney, in order to prosecute an appeal for a nonjurisdictional defect or error that occurred prior to entry of the plea the notice shall state that the trial court granted permission to appeal or specify that those matters were raised by written motion and ruled on before trial.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Godbehere v. State · Lenox v. State“(A) ... the appeal is for a jurisdictional defect; (B) ... the substance of the appeal was raised by written motion and ruled on before trial; or (C) ... the trial court granted permission to appeal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“provided, however, before the defendant who has been convicted upon either his plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere before the court and the court, upon the election of the defendant, assesses punishment and the punishment does not exceed the punishment recommended by the prosecutor and agreed to by the defendant and his attorney may prosecute his appeal, he must have permission of the trial court, except on those matters which have been raised by written motion filed prior to trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re Swarthout · Cooper v. State
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.