State v. Ellenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Weleck (1952), State v. Winne (1953)
49 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 State v. Overton · State v. Walter · State v. Kern · State v. Riggs · Gordon v. State
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indictment grounded in a definitive statute should be so framed that it will, upon inspection, disclose not merely what nature of crime but what particular crime was intended to be charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury.,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Winne“the accused shall have the right * * * to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.