Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.2d 393 · 1960
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982), United States v. George H. Lustig, United States of America v. Gregory D. Pederson (1977)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Diaz v. United States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Lewis v. United States · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not relate to trivial, insubstantial matters, but involved vital issues in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.