808 So. 2d 92 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Schad v. Arizona · Richardson v. United States · 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State · Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition · 511 So. 2d 526 - Rogers v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The trial court found and gave weight to the following nonstatutory mitigators: (1) Evans' good conduct while in jail (little weight); (2) Evans' good attitude and conduct while awaiting trial (little weight); (3) Evans' difficult childhood (little weight); (4) Evans was raised without a father (little weight); (5) Evans was the product of a broken home (little weight); (6) Evans suffered great trauma during childhood (moderate weight); (7) Evans suffered from hyperactivity and had a prior psychiatric history and a history of hospitalization for mental illness (moderate weight); (8) Evans was the father of two young girls (very little weight); (9) Evans believes in God (very little weight); (10) Evans will adjust well to life in prison and is unlikely to be a danger to others while serving a life sentence (very little weight); (11) Evans loves his family and Evans' family loves him (very little weight). The trial court found that Evans failed to establish that he was immature, and therefore gave this proposed mitigator no weight. Moreover, the court refused to recognize Evans' artistic ability as a mitigating circumstance and therefore gave this no weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prosecutor permits a defendant to be tried upon an indictment which he or she knows is based on perjured, material testimony without informing the court, opposing counsel and the grand jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Admission of evidence is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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