Evans v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2011
3 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 Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission · Palmer v. City of Euclid · Farris v. Cannon · In Re Supreme Court Adjudication of Sufficiency of Initiative Petition in Tulsa · Loffland Bros. Equipment v. White
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“B. Any person who is an inmate confined in any institution or facility operated by the Department of Corrections who escapes from said confinement, either while actually confined therein or while permitted to be at large as a trusty, shall be punishable by imprisonment of not less than two (2) years nor more than seven (7) years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt v. State“A committed offender is, during his absence, to be considered as in the custody of the correctional facility and the time of such absence is to be considered as part of the term of sentence. Failure to return to the facility shall be deemed an escape and subject to such penalty as provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt 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.