State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Dennis (1997), State v. Conway (2006)
6 federal appellate · 262 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Swain v. State of Alabama · State v. Long
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conduct of voir dire by defense counsel does not have to take a particular form, nor do specific questions have to be asked.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`appreciation of the nature and circumstances of the crimes.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the poignant aspect, when you stop to think about it, a young man watching his mother murdered with 22 stab wounds and crawling under the bed and coming out when the police officers found him saying, ‘Don’t shoot. I’m only a kid. I’m only a kid.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Mitchell
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.