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← 561 S.W.2d 489 - Evert v. State

Evert v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 1989
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miller v. California · Mishkin v. State of New York · Central Magazine Sales, Ltd. v. United States · Smith v. State · Bloss v. Dykema

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a bias or prejudice against any of the law applicable to the case upon which the defense is entitled to rely, either as a defense to some phase of the offense for which the defendant is being prosecuted or as a mitigation thereof or of the punishment thereof.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “she would be compelled to find [a film] obscene in accord with her personal standards, regardless of whether such a film offended contemporary community standards.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “(c) A challenge for cause may be made by the defense for any of the following reasons:”
    1 later decision 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.