People v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2005 · most notably Simmons v. United States (1968), 43 Cal. 3d 171 - People v. Ledesma (1987)
93 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 20 Cal. 2d 885 - People v. Putnam · People v. Cook · 10 Cal. 2d 138 - People v. Gidney · 89 Cal. App. 2d 467 - People v. Ford · People v. Bird
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a case such as this where the crime charged is of itself sufficient to inflame the minds of the average person, it is required that there be rigorous insistence upon observance of the rules of the admission of evidence and conduct of the trial."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.