Ellis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Palm Beach Estates v. Croker (1932), Becker v. King (1975)
57 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
Relies on Smith v. State · Davis v. People of Territory of Utah · First National Bank v. Gibbs · Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Co. v. Boy · American Railway Express Co. v. Weatherford
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But while the entry is not the judgment, its absence tends strongly to indicate that no judgment exists, and in doubtful cases may be sufficient to sustain the issue that whatever has been done has been but preliminary to judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While in one sense a judgment is `rendered' when it is announced by a judge, yet until that judgment is entered of record, there is no competent evidence of such rendition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his court is firmly committed to the doctrine that a legal conviction of crime includes a judgment of the court as well as a plea or verdict of guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.