Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Betts v. Brady · Simon v. Craft · Neufield v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e have no serious doubt that a person against whom a prima facie showing has been made of having an unsound mind of paranoid state could not properly be held to have waived counsel intelligently, understandingly, competently, or knowingly. If a person is insane at the time of the trial of a criminal case, he can not legally waive counsel for the reason that he is incapable of making a proper defense.” Evans v. United States (D.C. App. 1951), 83 A.2d 876, 879 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rath
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.