Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
April 1983
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Bell v. Ohio
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant was an accomplice in the capital felony committed by another person and his participation was relatively minor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritter 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.