Evans v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
March 1971
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Pauling v. McElroy · Hoag v. State of New Jersey · Nolan v. United States · People v. Winfrey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When a person has violated the criminal statutes of two different sovereigns, it is for the interested sovereigns and not the criminal to settle which shall first inflict punishment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harrison
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.