Sheriff v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2020
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sheriff v. Hodes · State v. Von Brincken · Graham 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probable cause to 19 support an information may be based on slight, even 'marginal evidence.”
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.