Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 1982
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Benson v. State · Nash v. State · Mallory v. State · Whitley v. State · McGaha v. State
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.
“* * * An admonition to the jury as to its duty to return a verdict, without any expression of the court’s opinion as to the weight of the evidence, or any change in instructions previously given, or suggestion that any juror yiéld his individual convictions to reach a verdict is not improper. (Citing case.) * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. State · Walker 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.