Evans v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 371 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Hill v. Lockhart (1985), Copas v. Commissioner of Correction (1995)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inconceivable ..., and not merely improbable ... that [Creech] would have gone to trial on a defense of [imperfect self-defense], or that if he had done so he either would have been acquitted or, if convicted, would nevertheless have been given a shorter sentence than he actually received.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Lockhart · White v. State“... in order to satisfy the 'prejudice' requirement, the defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would Hill v. have insisted on going to trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. State · Rhinehart v. State“[i]f there is no bona fide defense to [a] charge, counsel cannot create one and may disserve the interests of his client by attempting a useless charade.”
2 later decisions 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.