Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Anderson v. State (1922), McClurkin v. McClurkin (1921)
79 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · United States v. Throckmorton · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Robert West v. State of Louisiana · Standard Oil Company of Indiana v. State of Missouri
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For due process of law means notice, a hearing according to that notice, and a judgment entered in accordance to that notice and that hearing. That is to say, the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution guarantees that the defendant shall be given that character of notice and opportunity to be heard which is essentially due process of law. It has been held that when this is done, the requirements of the Constitution are met, and that it is not for the Supreme Court of the United States to determine whether there has been an erroneous construction of statute- or common law by the state court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"`If they had knowledge of facts which should have put a person of ordinary prudence on inquiry, and these facts failed to quicken their diligence into an ascertainment of their rights, or a knowledge of the fraud and errors of which complaint is made, it cannot be said that they are sufficiently free from negligence to be brought within the letter or spirit of the statute.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because of fraud in the matter on which the decree or judgment was rendered, the court may not interfere; but, when the fraud lies in an extrinsic and collateral act, by which the judgment or decree is directly obtained, the court will interfere.”
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.