State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Littlefield (2005), State v. Pepin (2007)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Commonwealth v. Toney · United States v. Hudson · State v. Bruneau · State v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Martinez
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail on his challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, the defendant must prove that no rational trier of fact, viewing all of the evidence and all reasonable inferences from it in the light most favorable to the State, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lindsey“[i]t is reasonable to infer consciousness of guilt from a defendant's false exculpatory statement because an innocent person does not usually find it necessary to invent or fabricate an explanation or statement tending to establish ... her innocence”
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.