Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2004
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 272nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Almanza v. State · Bodine v. United States · Montoya v. State · Stewart v. State · Purtell v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reich-Bacot 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.