State v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• citations to cases in nine states and the United States Supreme Court omitted
• citations to cases in nine states and the United States Supreme Court omitted
• penalty invalidated if so disproportionate “as to shock the conscience of reasonable men”
• penalty invalidated if so disproportionate \as to shock the conscience of reasonable men\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• In Re Lynch
  California Supreme Court· 1972-12-04· cited 852×
• State v. Brown
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1992-01-10· cited 601×
• United States v. Dost
  S.D. California· 1986-06-12· cited 359×
• State v. Broadhead
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 247×
• In Re Rodriguez
  California Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 164×
• State v. Cooper
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 145×
• Workman v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1968-06-14· cited 114×
• Chesebrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-12-08· cited 100×
• United States v. Michael James O'driscoll, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Amicus Curiae
  Tenth Circuit· 1985-06-04· cited 79×
• United States v. Raymond Moore
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-10-23· cited 78×
• State v. Searcy
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1990-09-05· cited 64×
• State v. Bitt
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1990-09-13· cited 63×
• Rich v. Williams
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1959-06-24· cited 60×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-12-07· cited 59×
• Franklin v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1964-05-26· cited 55×
• People v. Mills
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-05-17· cited 51×
• State v. Greensweig
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1982-02-09· cited 49×
• Eberle v. Nielson
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1957-02-13· cited 44×
• Palm Gardens, Inc. v. Oregon Liquor Control Commission
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1973-10-08· cited 39×
• Standlee v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1975-08-05· cited 37×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• Screws v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-07· cited 2,023×
• Nash v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1913-06-09· cited 749×
• Pennsylvania Ex Rel. Sullivan v. Ashe
  Supreme Court· 1937-11-08· cited 270×
• In Re Bell
  California Supreme Court· 1942-02-13· cited 207×
• Omaechevarria v. Idaho
  Supreme Court· 1918-03-18· cited 193×
• McDonald v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-05-18· cited 82×
• Joseph Triner Corp. v. McNeil
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1936-06-10· cited 70×
• State v. Prejean
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1950-02-13· cited 48×
• In re Mallon
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1909-06-12· cited 37×
• State v. Linebarger
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1951-04-23· cited 35×
• People v. Walton
  California Court of Appeal· 1945-08-23· cited 33×
• State ex rel. Garvey v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1896-01-11· cited 27×
• Storseth v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1951-10-22· cited 24×
• State v. Campbell
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1950-06-26· cited 24×
• Herrick v. Gallet
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1922-01-24· cited 24×
• State v. Dingman
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1923-05-30· cited 21×
• State of Arizona v. Menderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1941-03-22· cited 20×
• People v. George
  California Court of Appeal· 1941-01-22· cited 14×
• Harper v. Wall
  D. New Jersey· 1949-07-19· cited 13×