Evans v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 117 · 1989
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ylst v. Nunnemaker (1991), Jones v. United States (1999)
34 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Burks v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Harris v. Reed
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the reasons stated in the answer” to the habeas petition. These reasons were procedural default. The state supreme court affirmed, finding “no reversible error in the judgment complained of.” The Fourth Circuit observed in a footnote,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No obligation exists for the trial judge to inform the jury of the ultimate result should they fail to reach a verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winkler v. State · Green v. French“he was denied his due process rights because the trial judge improperly instructed the jury that a sentence of life imprisonment could be imposed only by a unanimous verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winkler 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.