State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Dowling (2011), State v. Guthrie (2011)
2 district · 46 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 Terry v. Ohio · Graham v. Connor · State v. Manus · State v. Benally · State v. Parish
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When asserting self-defense against a private citizen ... a defendant has an unqualified right to a self-defense instruction in a criminal case when there is evidence which supports the instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Candelaria
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.