Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1980
8 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 Townsend v. Sain
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was not the purpose of Criminal Procedure Rule No. 1 to give a person convicted of a crime a holiday from the penitentiary for the purpose of a hearing, but to conscientiously protect his constitutional rights. If trial courts will therefore insist upon proper verification of pleadings and pre-trial statements, any abuse of the privilege of post-conviction proceedings can be remedied through prosecution for perjury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper 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.