Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Massey v. United States (1922)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 91 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 Bayless v. Glenn · McNutt v. McNutt · Martin v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Harrington · Maguire v. State
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine that when a statute imposes a greater punishment upon second and subsequent convictions of an offense, that the former conviction must be alleged in the indictment and proved at the trial, or the same can only be punished as a first offense, is sustained by the great weight of the authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dougherty v. State
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.