Charlie Lee Evans v. Robert Raines and Robert K. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 884 · 1986
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Moran v. Godinez (1995), Bittaker v. Woodford (2003)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brewer v. Williams · Sumner v. Mata · Miller v. Fenton · United States v. Tucker · Maggio v. Fulford
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever the trial judge entertains ... a good faith doubt as to that defendant's ability to understand the nature and consequences of the plea or to participate intelligently in the proceedings and to make a reasoned choice among the alternatives presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessarily involve assessments of credibility and demeanor,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an issue involves credibility of witnesses and an evaluation of demeanor, there are compelling and familiar justifications for leaving the process of applying law to fact to the trial court and according its determination presumptive weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Martinez
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.