United States v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 1134 · 1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2011
12 federal appellate · 9 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 Ex parte Lange · Bozza v. United States · Wood v. United States · Borum v. United States · Montana Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that a sentence in all respects legal cannot be increased after the defendant has begun serving it. 2 . . . A sentence plainly illegal, how ever, . . . may corrected even after the defendant has begun serving it. [United States v. Evans, 148 U.S.App.D.C. 110, 112 , 459 F.2d 1134, 1136 (1972) (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision 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.