Drayton v. Evatt’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Al-Shabazz v. State (2000), Kornahrens v. Evatt (1995)
7 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Skipper v. South Carolina · Cherek v. United States · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In favorem vitae review requires us to painstakingly inspect capital cases to determine whether prejudicial error has been committed in a trial irrespective of whether an assignment of error has been made by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]rrors which can be reviewed on direct appeal may not be asserted for the first time, or reasserted, in post-conviction proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Ozmint · Wilson v. Ozmint
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.