Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 584 · 1894
Citation profile
368 federal appellate · 89 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 676 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Zant v. Stephens (1983), Russell v. United States (1962)
368 federal appellate · 89 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 28 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Pettibone v. United States · United States v. Hess · United States v. Carll
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 676 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no disposition to qualify what has already been frequently decided by this court, that where the crime is a statutory one it must be charged with precision and eertainty, and every ingredient of whieh it is composed must be clearly and accurately set forth, and that even in the cases of misdemeanors the indictment must be free from all ambiguity, and leave no doubt in the minds of the accused and the court of the exact offense intended to be charged.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every element of the offense being set forth in the earlier part of the count, there was no necessity of repeating it when the particular credit misapplied is described. * * * While the rules of criminal pleading require that the accused shall be fully apprised of the charge made against him, it should, after all, be borne in mind that the object of criminal proceeding is to convict the guilty as well as to shield the innocent, and no impracticable standard of particularity should he set up whereby the government may be entrapped into making allegations which it would be impossible to prove.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the gravamen of the offense consists in the evil design with which the misapplication is made ....”
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.