Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Martinez v. Media-Paymaster Plus/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2007), State v. Burns (2000)
2 federal appellate · 51 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 15 U.S.C. § 1312 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 47 U.S.C. § 315
Relies on Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co. · State v. Pena · Abbott Laboratories v. Portland Retail Druggists Assn., Inc. · Schurtz v. BMW of North America, Inc. · State v. Anderson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our primary goal is to give effect to the legislature's intent in light of the purpose the statute was meant to achieve.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins · In Re Kunz“The best evidence of the true intent and purpose of the Legislature in enacting the Act is the plain language of the Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutory language is ambiguous if it can reasonably be understood to have more than one meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Grigsby · Day v. Meek
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.