Evalt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.2d 534 · 1966
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Shannon v. United States (1994), United States v. Lewis (1973)
45 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. United States · Massiah v. United States · McNabb v. United States · Henry v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“turn[ing] this man loose again on society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We agree with the view of California Supreme Court [in People v. Morse, 60 Cal.2d 631 , 36 Cal.Rptr. 201 , 388 P.2d 33 (1964)] where it quoted with approval from State v. White, 1958, 27 N.J. 158 , 142 A.2d 65 as follows: ‘The jurors perform their task completely when they decide the matter assigned to them upon the evidence before them what happens thereafter is of no concern of theirs.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In cases such as this, where the jury has nothing to do with fixing the penalty, the jury’s sole concern is guilt or innocence, ft should not concern itself with what punishment the defendant may receive, or whether, if acquitted, he would or would not “walk out of this courtroom a free man” or whether they would “turn this man loose again on society.””
2 later decisions 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.