Everly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2011
23 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 Robinson v. State · State v. Brown · 79 Cal. App. 76 - People v. Bennett · Wasy v. State · 135 Ind. App. 495 - Stillwell v. Adams
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 256. The Everly court further elaborated, Like the death penalty, the State's burden of proof, and the insanity defense, the law of self-defense is not without its controversial features, e.g., the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State““When the jury has been sworn the Court shall instruct in writing as to the issues for trial, the burden of proof, the credibility of witnesses, and the manner of weighing the testimony to be received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“each party has a right to discover whether prospective jurors have fixed opinions or conscientious seruples that would or might prevent them from following the court-declared law of self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black 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.