Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Sweeney v. State (1998), Steward v. State (1995)
27 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · United States v. Monton
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts will look for the dangers that the jury will substantially overestimate the value of the evidence or that the evidence will arouse or inflame the passions or sympathies of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“subject to the general rules of admissibility, ... and any portions found immaterial, irrelevant, or prejudicial must be redacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DesJardins 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.