Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Lord Electric Co. v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of a defendant's possession of the means to commit a crime within a reasonable time of the crime charged is admissible without proof that the particular means was in fact the one used”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the statement, as written, was not attributable to the [witness] with sufficient precision to be used for the intended purpose”
1 later decision 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.