Lyons v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 499 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2010
8 federal appellate ·
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 Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · O'NEAL v. McAninch · California v. Roy
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ue to the magnitude of the trial court's error ... we need not decide whether ... Chapman or Brecht is the appropriate standard to apply in this case.”); Hanna v. Riveland, 87 F.3d 1034 , 1038 n. 2 (9th Cir.1996) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There can be no reasonable doubt that inaccurate eyewitness testimony may be one of the most prejudicial features of a criminal trial____ Because the intrinsic unreliability of eyewitness identifications is so often compounded with the distorting effects of the natural suggestion to the witness that the person on trial is the guilty one, it is no exaggeration to venture that the influence of improper suggestion upon identifying witnesses probably accounts for more miscarriages of justice than any other single factor — perhaps it is responsible for more such errors than all other factors combined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] physical display of [the other individual] wearing gold fronts was relevant and ought to have been admitted.”
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.