Evans v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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

1. ““The State says that harm to Evans is sheer speculation because he did not even undertake to prove a lesser offense. It seems to us, however, that it offends the most fundamental notions of fairness for the state first to tell Evans that there is no lesser offense and then later urge that his death sentence should be upheld because he failed to present evidence which would prove a lesser included offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cook v. State

2. “infect virtually every aspect of any capital defendant's trial from beginning to end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hopper v. Evans

3. “the evidence would have supported such a verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hopper v. Evans