Evans v. Muncy, Warden, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Hudson v. McMillian (1992), Harris v. Garner (2000)
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Evans 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look the other way when late-arriving evidence upsets its determination that a particular defendant can lawfully be executed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Workman v. Bredesen
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.