People v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Fuller v. State (1959), Clinebell v. Commonwealth (1988)
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 19 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
Relies on People v. Mather · Annis v. People · Quinn v. People · Bashford v. People · Churchill v. Emerick
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think this evidence should have been admitted. * * * The jury were asked to tabfe her story, and in reliance thereon find the respondent guilty. It became a question of fact for their consideration; and they ought to have been made acquainted, under the circumstances stated and proven, with the mental and moral qualities of the girl. If she was accustomed, and had on numerous occasions, as claimed by counsel for respondent, made statements charging, not only her brothers, but numerous other men of that community, with other similar offenses, and then admitted the falsity of such charges, it would have a tendency to show a morbid condition of mind or body, and go a long way in explaining this charge, which, under the circumstances, and the surroundings shown to exist, seems almost unaccountable. It is claimed that the testimony offered would tend to show that she was the subject of hallucinations upon this subject, and is in its nature independent evidence, and in no sense collateral. “We think this view is sustained in the case of Derwin v. Parsons, 52 Mich. 426 ( 18 N. W. 200 , 50 Am. Rep. 262 ). Mr. Justice Cooley, in his opinion in that case, says: “ ‘The case was one which justified a good degree of liberality in the admission of evidence. The parties were directly opposed in their testimony, and the jury would-be likely to accept the statement of the one who was best supported by the circumstances. * * * To questions whether the plaintiff had not made charges similar”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Wilson““That a defendant in any criminal case or proceeding shall only at his own request be deemed a competent witness, and his neglect to testify shall not create any presumption against him, nor shall the court permit any reference or comment to be made to or upon such neglect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lay“Did you ever have any conversation with Rose about a charge she made at one time against George Evans having made a similar assault upon her?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.