Evans v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 1337 · 1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1987
3 federal appellate ·
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
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People · Case v. State of Nebraska · Worley v. Swenson · In re Barry
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the conviction or the sentence was in violation of the Constitution of the United States or the constitution or laws of this state * * * * *”
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.