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Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
3
states following
April 2010
most recently cited

59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Watts v. State (1950), Woods v. State (1968)

59 state decisions

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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 Hawkins v. State · White v. State · Hamilton v. State · Mason v. State · Davidson v. State of Indiana

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Counsel urge that the finding of guilty on the one count is inconsistent with and negatived by the acquittal of the other offenses for which he was tried. In each of them the entry must be made with felonious intent. § 10-701, Burns’ 1942 Replacement; § 10-704, Burns’ 1942 Replacement. The court may have had difficulty in inferring that such intent existed when the window was opened. The intent to steal might have been formed after the thief gained entrance.” Evans v. State (1946), 224 Ind. 428, 433, 434 , 68 N. E. 2d 546 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Goodloe v. State
  2. ““ ‘Generally speaking, the term “corpus delicti” means, when applied to any particular offense, that the specific crime charged has actually been committed by someone.’ ””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State
  3. ““* * * It was not necessary, as appellant seems to think, to amend the affidavit to show the offense as having occurred between those hours. * * *””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Herman 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.