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Evans v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis

568 U.S. 313 · 2013

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
17
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113

Relies on Burks v. United States · Green v. United States · Payne v. Tennessee · United States v. Dixon · United States v. Scott

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

  1. “any ruling that the prosecution's proof is insufficient to establish criminal liability for an offense.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'a ruling by the court that the evidence is insufficient to convict,' a 'factual finding [that] necessarily establish[es] the criminal defendant's lack of criminal culpability,' and any other 'rulin[g] which relate[s] to the ultimate question of guilt or innocence.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.