485 So. 2d 276 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Johnson v. Mississippi (1988), 584 So. 2d 426 - Mohr v. State (1991)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Strickland v. Washington · Swain v. State of Alabama · Engle v. Isaac · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as used in this section shall be defined and limited to those cases where the legal foundation upon which the claim for relief is based could not have been discovered with reasonable diligence at the time of trial or direct appeal. (5) The term”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]ailure by a prisoner to raise objections, defenses, claims, questions, issues or errors either in fact or law which were capable of determination at trial and/or on direct appeal, regardless of whether such are based on the laws and the Constitution of the state of Mississippi or of the United States, shall constitute a waiver thereof and shall be procedurally barred. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The doctrine of res judicata shall apply to all issues, both factual and legal, decided at trial and on direct appeal.”
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.