Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bacher v. State · Prowell v. State · Bunch v. State · Buchanan v. State · Echols 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court shall not revise a sentence authorized by statute unless the sentence is manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCann v. State · Lewis v. State“'the maximum possible sentences are generally most appropriate for the worst offenders'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. State · Love v. State“In determining whether a sentence is manifestly unreasonable, 'the issue is not whether in our judgment the sentence is unreasonable, but whether it is clearly, plainly, and obviously so”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan v. State · Like 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.