Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
July 2009
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the State is seeking a death sentence, that the person entertains such conscientious opinions as would preclude the person from recommending that the death penalty be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dye 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.