Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
444 federal appellate · 73 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 796 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Green Tree Financial Corp.-Alabama v. Randolph (2000), United States v. Burgos (1996)
444 federal appellate · 73 district · 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Evans (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Glasser v. United States · Monroe v. Pape · Taylor v. United States
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 796 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Government need only show that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage“under color of official right,” 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (b)(2), which includes a”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he official and the payor need not state the quid pro quo in express terms, for otherwise the law's effect could be frustrated by knowing winks and nods.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.