United States v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 1124 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. MacDonald (1982)
23 federal appellate · 13 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Patton v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · United States v. Bennett · United States v. Virginia Erection 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A declarant is not unavailable as a witness if his exemption, refusal, claim of lack of memory, inability, or absence is due to the procurement or wrongdoing of the proponent of his statement for the purpose of preventing the witness from attending or testifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harris“An alternate juror who does not replace a principal juror shall be discharged after the jury returns its verdict or earlier in the discretion of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule does not purport, however, to deny power to the trial court to reconstitute someone as a juror who previously has been discharged.”
1 later decision 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.