Evans v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Michigan Supreme Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · Payne v. Tennessee · United States v. Dixon · United States v. Scott
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a ruling by the court that the evidence is insufficient to convict,' a 'factual finding [that] necessarily establish[es] the criminal defendant's lack of criminal culpability,' and any other 'rulin[g] which relate[s] to the ultimate question of guilt or innocence.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e know the trial court acquitted Evans ... because it acted on its view that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the ruling of the judge, whatever its label, actually represents a resolution ... of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged.”
4 later decisions 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.