Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Engle v. Isaac · Enmund v. Florida · 422 So. 2d 737 - Evans v. State · 434 So. 2d 212 - Smith v. State · Edwards v. Thigpen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case sub judice the victim was forced to kneel on the floor behind the counter with a .38-caliber revolver pointing at his head, he was made to stand at gunpoint and open the cash register, and again was forced to kneel on the floor with the revolver still pointing at his head. He was physically assaulted by one of the robbers emptying his pockets, all occurring over a short period of time. From these facts, the jury could consider mental torture and aggravation which the victim probably underwent, and to determine whether or not the murder under all the facts and circumstances was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.”
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.