Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably State v. Penix (1987), Smith v. State (1984)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Adams v. Texas · Davis v. Georgia · 66 Cal. 2d 524 - People v. Bandhauer
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but who apparently meant only that the potentially lethal consequences of their decision would invest their deliberations with greater seriousness and gravity or would involve them emotionally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Graham v. State“by the possibility of the death penalty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Graham 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.