Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Colwell v. State (2002), Randolph v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · United States v. Young · Zant v. Stephens
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel presents a mixed question of law and fact, subject to independent review,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“absent a showing that the State acted in bad faith or that the nondisclosure caused substantial prejudice to the defendant which was not alleviated by the court's order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The district court has broad discretion in fashioning a remedy”
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.