Ellis v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1980
6 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 Briscoe v. Alfrey · Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co. v. Rogers · Lander v. Jordan · St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Hill Bros. · Ft. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Decatur Cotton Seed Oil Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We think an animal is running at large’ ” within the meaning of the ordinance, when off the premises of its custodian within the city limits with the consent or acquiescence of such custodian, or by reason of such custodian’s negligence, when it is not under the immediate control of anyone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Searcy v. Brown
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.