State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Ali v. State (2004), State v. Moore (2005)
76 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 O’connor v. Ohio · State v. Lancaster · State v. Lynn · State v. Cowans · State v. Breedlove
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the new rule applie[s] to the cases pending on the announcement date”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`application of a new rule of law to a pending appeal is not retrospective,' and * * * the new rule applie[s] to the cases pending on the announcement date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue of whether a new rule should be applied retroactively only arises when a conviction has become final.”
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.