State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2022
10 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 State v. Harris · State v. Mayes · Chambers 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The statute] does not permit trial courts to repeat large amounts of testimony just because the jury makes [a request to do so]. On the contrary, it requires that the court discover the exact nature of the jury’s difficulty, isolate the precise testimony which can solve it, and weigh the probative value of the testimony against the danger of undue emphasis. If, after this careful exercise of discretion, the court decides to repeat some testimony for the jury, it can do so in open court ... or under other strictly controlled procedures of which the parties have been notified. ... The more testimony the court repeats, the greater danger of undue emphasis. Even with the best of procedures, it would not be proper under the statute for the court to reread a transcript ... just because the jury wants to review all of the testimonial matter.... Undue emphasis and delay would be too likely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Greene
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.