422 So. 2d 737 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Stringer v. Black (1992)
1 federal appellate · 114 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Godfrey v. Georgia · Boulden v. Holman
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mental torture and aggravation which the victim probably underwent”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clemons v. State · Evans v. State“'The Court instructs the Jury that the terms heinous, atrocious, and cruel are deemed to include those capital crimes where the actual commission of the capital felony was accompanied by such additional acts as to set the crime apart from the norm of capital felonies in that it involved the conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim. If you find from the evidence that the victim died a quick death without unnecessary pain and torture, then, though the crime is murder, it is not to be considered as especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.' " 422 So.2d, at 745. The Supreme Court of Mississippi held that "under the facts of the case sub judice and under the Mississippi statute, [this instruction] was too restrictive and its refusal does not constitute reversible error notwithstanding Godfrey v. Georgia. " Ibid. 7 In fact, the jury in petitioner's case received even less guidance than did the Oklahoma jury in Maynard. The Oklahoma jury was instructed that " 'the term "heinous”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder Mississippi statutes and decisions, when a person has been convicted and placed on probation, particularly here, where four (4) years of a five year sentence were suspended, such sentence is a sentence under imprisonment.”
3 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.