Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015
2 federal appellate · 8 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 · Jurek v. Texas · Castaneda v. Partida · Jurek v. State · Bass v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ach defendant should be judged by his own conduct and participation and by his own circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party may, when testimony of his own witness is injurious to his cause, attack the testimony in any other manner except by offering evidence of the witness’ bad character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinney 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.