Dutton v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1,487 federal appellate · 94 district · 1,866 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,059 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Ohio v. Roberts (1980)
1,487 federal appellate · 94 district · 1,866 state decisions — followed in 49 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAlex S. Evans v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3771 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
Cited together with California v. Green · Ohio v. Roberts · Bruton v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · Chapman v. State of California
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 4,059 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accuracy of the truth-determining process.”
204 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it hadn't been for that dirty son-of-a-bitch Alex Evans, we wouldn't be in this now.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court finding that admission of the statement violated appellee's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment. The Supreme Court, however, reversed the court of appeals holding that the out-of-court statement was admissible since it bore indicia of reliability that fully warranted its placement before the jury. The Supreme Court recognized, as has this Court, that”
9 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.