Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Hunter v. State (1979), Hawley v. State (1980)
2 federal appellate · 73 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 Chapman v. State of California · Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · United States v. Russell · Sorrells 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[U]nlawful entrapment occurs when a public law enforcement official, or person working in cooperation with him, in order to obtain evidence of the commission of an offense, induces another person to commit such an offense by persuasion or inducement which would be effective to persuade an average person, other than one who is ready and willing to commit such an offense. Conversely, instigations which would induce only a person engaged in a habitual course of unlawful conduct for gain or profit do not constitute entrapment."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Tjhe defect if any in Instruction No. 8 does not warrant notice in this case. To constitute ‘plain error’ the defect must be both obvious and substantial. The giving of an incorrect instruction should be recognized as plain error only when necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice. The defect must have been obviously prejudicial. If it appears that failure to give defendant’s proposed instruction did not contribute to the verdict, reversal is not required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Burke v. State“[I]t is essential that he in some way `... associate himself with the venture, that he participate in it as in something that he wishes to bring about, that he seek by his action to make it succeed.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bendle v. State · Resek v. State
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.