Hopper v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
358 federal appellate · 38 district · 598 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,325 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Arizona v. Fulminante (1991), Rose v. Clark (1986)
358 federal appellate · 38 district · 598 state decisions — followed in 34 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama
Cited together with Beck v. Alabama · Strickland v. Washington · Keeble v. United States · Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is any reasonable theory from the evidence which would support the position.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“due process requires that a lesser included offense instruction be given only when the evidence warrants such an instruction.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Schriro · Ritter v. State“"(1) Was there any evidence presented at trial upon which a conviction of a lesser included offense could have been based? "(2) If not, has the defendant suggested any plausible claim which he might conceivably have made, had there been no preclusion clause, that is not contradicted by his own testimony at trial?"”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Baldwin · State v. Nolen
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.