Evans v. Rives’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.2d 633 · 1942
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 5 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Edwards v. United States (1958), Wood v. United States (1942)
79 federal appellate · 5 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Walker v. Johnston · Bowen v. Johnston · Holiday v. Johnston
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is * * * suggested * * * that the constitutional guaranty of the right to the assistance of counsel in a criminal case does not apply except in the event of ‘serious offenses.’ No such differentiation is made in the wording of the guaranty itself, and we are cited to no authority, and know of none, making this distinction. * * * And so far as the right to the assistance of counsel is concerned, the Constitution draws no distinction between loss of liberty for a short period and such loss for a long one.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Beck v. Winters · James v. Headley“* * * The constitutional guarantee makes no distinction between the arraignment and other stages of criminal proceedings in respect of the application of the guarantee. As said in the statement quoted from Johnson v. Zerbst, “ ‘If charged with crime, he [the accused] is incapable, generally, of determining for himself whether the indictment is good or bad. ... He requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him.’ ” (Emphasis added by Evans court.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When this right is properly waived, the assistance of counsel is no longer a necessary element of the court's jurisdiction to proceed to conviction and sentence. If the accused, however, is not represented by counsel and has not competently and intelligently waived his constitutional right, the Sixth Amendment stands as a jurisdictional bar to a valid conviction and sentence depriving him of his life or his liberty.”
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.