Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1967
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 evidence that could be presented by the witness Barfield would be merely cumulative and corroborative of the evidence of which the appellant had the benefit during his trial. Under such conditions a new trial is not authorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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