Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Walker v. State (1991), Gillie v. State (1991)
25 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 Henderson v. Kibbe · Alford v. State · Gardner v. State · Conley v. State · Rhodes 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof that Sweatt had sold marijuana on other occasions had no relevancy except to show that Sweatt had dealt in drags before and hence was likely to have done so again. That is precisely the type of proof that must be excluded. If Sweatt was guilty of other crimes, then, as we said in Alford, “each may be examined separately in a court of law, and punishment may be imposed for those established with the required certainty. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Alford v. State, 223 Ark. 330 , 266 S.W.2d 804 (1954), we thoroughly discussed the purposes and application of the common law equivalent of Rule 404.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saul 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.