Evans v. McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 1232 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), Dawson v. Delaware (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is settled that the death penalty may, as a general rule, be imposed on individuals for capital murder who themselves killed, attempted to kill, or intended that a killing take place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kelly v. Lynaugh“cross-examination must be permitted into any incentive the witness may have to falsify his testimony,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkerson v. Whitley
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.