Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), Nika v. State (2008)
2 district · 50 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Young · Lockett v. Ohio · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“; (2) that the representation of that group in the venire was not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such people in the cominunity; and (3) that the”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a comparative disparity well below 50% is unlikely to be sufficient [to show 10 "Unlike the absolute disparity, the comparative disparity takes into account the size of the group in addition to the absolute difference between the group's proportionate representation in the community and its representation in the jury pool.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the burden shift [ 1 to the government to show that the disparity is justified by a significant state interest.”
2 later decisions 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.