United States v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 210 · 1990
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Salgado (2001), Adams v. Rs Peterson Osci (1992)
46 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Delaware v. Prouse
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The penetration and manipulation- — cursory or sustained, modest or substantial — of the guardian mechanisms of [locked objects] is no trivial matter for Fourth Amendment purposes.” Id.; but see U.S. v. Concepcion, 942 F.2d 1170, 1172 (7th Cir.1991) (although”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is those contents that are the object of the lessee's privacy expectations, not the padlock. By placing personal effects inside the storage unit, Lyons manifested an expectation that the contents would be free from public view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“took special pains to satisfy himself that the waiver was knowing and voluntary to impress upon the defendant the significance of the choice to proceed by stipulation.”
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.