Evans v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that State's dominant and overriding interest in insuring the death penalty is imposed only for utmost of compelling legal reasons required appellate review
• holding that State's dominant and overriding interest in insuring the death penalty is imposed only for utmost of compelling legal reasons required appellate review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Ex Parte Kyzer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 217×
• Cochran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-04-24· cited 123×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-05-19· cited 102×
• Bufford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-02-26· cited 93×
• State v. Dodd
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-10-08· cited 85×
• Ex Parte Hays
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-02-29· cited 78×
• Evans v. Bennett
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-06· cited 55×
• Ex Parte Ritter
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-07-06· cited 50×
• Wayne E. Ritter v. Fred Smith, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections and J.D. White, Warden, Holman Unit
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-04-09· cited 46×
• Keller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-02-20· cited 37×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-08-22· cited 33×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-05-08· cited 32×
• Ritter v. Smith
  S.D. Alabama· 1983-08-11· cited 32×
• Russaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-10-26· cited 30×
• Ritter v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-02-11· cited 26×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-11-20· cited 24×
• Lynn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-10-23· cited 18×
• Horsley v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-06-01· cited 17×
• John Louis Evans, III v. Robert G. Britton, Commissioner, Alabama Board of Corrections, and Joseph Oliver, Warden, Holman Prison
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-03-09· cited 14×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cobern v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1962-04-05· cited 122×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-05-19· cited 102×
• Schenher v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1956-08-14· cited 78×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-05-15· cited 70×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-03-14· cited 61×
• Bowens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1974-12-17· cited 50×
• Bowens v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1975-03-13· cited 41×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-10-25· cited 39×
• Gayden v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1954-08-31· cited 37×
• Flannagin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1972-09-07· cited 29×
• Wallace v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1960-08-16· cited 22×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1963-01-10· cited 17×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1974-11-21· cited 11×
• Houlton v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1950-06-12· cited 8×
• Ivery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1972-06-13· cited 5×
• Schenher v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1956-11-01· cited 3×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-11-04· cited 2×